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| Chat
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Limestone gravel. |
| Chat-sawn finish limestone
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Limestone that has a coarse finish. |
| Chattel
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Portable property, tangible or otherwise, except real estate. |
| Chattel mortgage
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Lien on personal property that is used as collateral for a loan. |
| Chattel real
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Interests and property directly connected with real estate, such as leases, fixtures, etc. |
| Check
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(1) A sudden stop or abrupt halt. (2) A restraint or control. (3) A written order to a bank to pay a stated amount of money from one's account. (4) Separation that runs along the grains and across the annual rings in a piece of wood. |
| Check rail
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Also called meeting rails, they are the top horizontal sash member of the bottom window and the bottom horizontal sash member of the top window in a double hung window that mate together tightly when closed, permitting no air passage between the sashes. |
| Check valve
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A type of backflow preventer installed in a pipe run that allows water to flow in only one direction. |
| Checking
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A pattern of surface cracks running in irregular lines. When found in the top pour of an asphalt built-up roof, is the preliminary stage of alligatoring. |
| Checks
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Splits or cracks in a board, ordinarily caused by seasoning. |
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