"hammer beam" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: hammer beams [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} hammer beam (plural hammer beams)
  1. (architecture) A 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. Categories (topical): Architecture
    Sense id: en-hammer_beam-en-noun-4LF56MSp Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: architecture

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