hammer beam (English, noun)
expansion: hammer beam (plural hammer beams)
Senses:
topics: architecture
glosses: 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.
Forms:
form: hammer beams
tags: plural
form: hammer-beam
tags: alternative
form: hammerbeam
tags: alternative