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    Tabby is a type of concrete made by burning oyster shells to create lime, then mixing it with water, sand, ash and broken oyster shells. Tabby was used...
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  • a female one. Other common uses: Tabby concrete, a building material Tabby weave, a fundamental textile pattern Tabby may also refer to: nickname of Frank...
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    Uses include lime mortar, lime plaster, lime render, lime-ash floors, tabby concrete, whitewash, silicate mineral paint, and limestone blocks which may be...
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    Reinforced concrete, also called ferroconcrete, is a composite material in which concrete's relatively low tensile strength and ductility are compensated...
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    of the Owens-Thomas House, Savannah, Georgia Slave quarters made of tabby concrete, Kingsley Plantation, Fort George Island, Florida, photographed 1865...
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    Truffle) Red tide Rolled oyster San Leandro Oyster Beds Sydney rock oyster Tabby concrete Oysters in Cynee Archived 10 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine, Recipe...
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    The Roman architectural revolution, also known as the concrete revolution, is the name sometimes given to the widespread use in Roman architecture of the...
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    built Use Notes Horton House Jekyll Island 1743 House One of the oldest tabby concrete buildings in Georgia Wild Heron near Savannah 1756 Plantation house...
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    brackets..." and is built from bricks made of concrete and local shells. Although lovingly referred to as "The Tabby House" by its owners and local residents...
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    oyster shell mounds, which were used in the nineteenth century to create tabby concrete, present in the foundations of several island buildings. The Spaniards...
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