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breastsummer

breastsummer is the alternative spelling of bressummer.

Meaning of bressummer

Noun

bressummer (plural bressummers)

  1. A large, horizontal supporting beam which bears the weight of a wall starting on a first or higher floor, particularly when exposed or used to support a jetty (timber-frame overhang construction).
    • Once the floor joists were in position, the framing of the next storey could continue, with a bressummer laid along their ends.1986, R. J. Brown, Timber-Framed Buildings of England, London: R. Hale, →ISBN, page 63

Forms of breastsummer

pluralbreastsummers

Questions about breastsummer

What is breastsummer the alternative spelling of?
Breastsummer is the alternative spelling of bressummer.

Words near breastsummer in the dictionary

  1. breaststroked
  2. breaststroker
  3. breaststrokers
  4. breaststrokes
  5. breaststroking
  6. breastsummer
  7. breastsummers
  8. breastwear
  9. breastweed
  10. breastwheel
  11. breastwheels

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Adapted from Wiktionary: breastsummer (page history and authors); bressummer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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