Word: grout
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upon eight piers which, though they appear imposingly massive, are in reality no more than stone pipes bolstered with rubble. The weight of the dome has made every one of them shift or crack. That the Cathedral's solidity could be amply restored by the simple method of grouting. To grout is to force behind the stone facings liquid cement which, oozing through the broken rubble, would petrify it into a rigid mass capable of sustaining any weight. That grouting would do no more good than grouching, for the piers themselves rested on a weak foundation which delved little...