English Explanatory Dictionary

hammer beam

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

hammer beam hammer beams hammer-beam hammerbeam

Derived words

hammer beam roof hammer beam truss
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