hammer beam
hammer beam · hammer beams
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A member of a kind of roof truss, so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the…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.
Meaning
1 sensesA (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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Translations
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By meaning 1
short member of a roof truss: