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brestsummer

brestsummer is the alternative form 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 brestsummer

pluralbrestsummers

Questions about brestsummer

What is brestsummer the alternative form of?
Brestsummer is the alternative form of bressummer.

Words near brestsummer in the dictionary

  1. bresticle
  2. bresticles
  3. Brestovac
  4. Brestovăț
  5. brests
  6. brestsummer
  7. brestsummers
  8. Bret
  9. Bret Harte
  10. Bret.
  11. bretache

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