hammerbeam

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A form of hammer beam — A (short) member of a kind of roof truss (a hammer-beam truss), so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam.

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Meanings

nounhammerbeam (plural hammerbeams)

plural hammerbeams

  1. alternativeAlternative form of hammer beam.
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