English Explanatory Dictionary

hammer beam roof

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A roof supported by a kind of roof 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 roof hammer beam roofs hammer-beam roof hammerbeam roof

Related words

hammer beam truss
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