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| Borrow
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Material used for grading, usually sand or gravel. Borrow Pit A hole at a site where soil has been excavated for use elsewhere. Also called a borrow site. |
| Borrow site
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A hole at a site where soil has been excavated for use elsewhere. Also called a borrow pit. |
| Borrower risk
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Liabilities assumed by a borrower; lose of financial ability to repay the loan, rising interest rates (adjustable rate loan) make the payments unaffordable, loan value may exceed the value of the security, etc. |
| Boss
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(1) Stone which is put into place to be carved at a later date. (2) Projecting formation of rock. (3) Projecting pipe connector that is welded onto a large diameter length of pipe to be connected to a smaller pipe, etc. |
| Boston hip
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Type of roofing where shingles butt tightly against each other at the hip with alternating shingle courses lapping over the edges of the opposing shingles. Also called a Boston Ridge. |
| Boston ridge
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Type of roofing where shingles butt tightly against each other at the hip with alternating shingle courses lapping over the edges of the opposing shingles. Also called a Boston Hip. |
| Botanical name
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The Latin or "scientific" name of a plant, usually composed of two words, the genus and the species. |
| Botel
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Guest accommodations offered by some marinas to mariners, similar to motels to motorists. |
| Bottle garden
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A form of terrarium in which a large and heavy glass container such as a carboy is used. |
| Bottled gas
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A generic term for liquefied and pressurized gas, ordinarily butane, propane, or a mixture of the two, contained in a cylinder for domestic use. |
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