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hammer beam

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.85 in modern English

Syllables
ham-mer beam
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Inflected Forms

hammer beams (plural) hammer-beam (alternative) hammerbeam (alternative)

Phrases

hammer beam roof hammer beam truss

Questions

What does hammer beam mean?
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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