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hammer beams

hammer beams is the plural of hammer beam.

Meaning of hammer beam

Noun

hammer beam (plural hammer beams)

  1. 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.

Questions about hammer beams

What is hammer beams the plural of?
Hammer beams is the plural of hammer beam.

Words near hammer beams in the dictionary

  1. hammer and tongs
  2. hammer away
  3. hammer beam
  4. hammer beam roof
  5. hammer beam truss
  6. hammer beams
  7. hammer bench
  8. hammer benches
  9. hammer blast
  10. hammer blasts
  11. hammer blow

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