tiebeam

See also: tie beam

English

Alternative forms

tie-beam

Etymology

tie +‎ beam

Noun

tiebeam (plural tiebeams)

(architecture) A beam acting as a tie, as at the bottom of a pair of principal rafters, to prevent them from thrusting out the wall.
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Translations

beam acting as a tie at the bottom of a pair of principal rafters

French: entrait (fr) m

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tiebeam in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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