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hammer beam roof

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.77 in modern English

Syllables
ham-mer beam roof
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Inflected Forms

hammer beam roofs (plural) hammer-beam roof (alternative) hammerbeam roof (alternative)

Phrases

hammer beam truss

Frequently Paired Words

hammer beam truss

Questions

What does hammer beam roof mean?
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.

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