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hammerbeam

hammerbeam is the alternative form 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.

Forms of hammerbeam

pluralhammerbeams

Questions about hammerbeam

What is hammerbeam the alternative form of?
Hammerbeam is the alternative form of hammer beam.

Words near hammerbeam in the dictionary

  1. hammer-on
  2. hammer-ons
  3. hammerable
  4. Hammerbarn
  5. Hammerbarns
  6. hammerbeam
  7. hammerbeams
  8. hammerblow
  9. hammerblows
  10. hammercloth
  11. hammercloths

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