"hammer beam" meaning in English

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        "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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        ],
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          "tiebeam",
          "tiebeam"
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        [
          "wall",
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        "(architecture) 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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        {
          "word": "Hammer beam roof"
        },
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          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "short member of a roof truss",
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "Stichbalken"
        },
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          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "short member of a roof truss",
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          "word": "Durchstichbalken"
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        "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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        "(architecture) 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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      "word": "Stichbalken"
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