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tiebeam en · NOUN

Etymology

From tie + beam.

Meanings

  1. A beam acting as a tie, as at the bottom of a pair of principal rafters, to prevent them from thrusting out the wall.
    • by being connected with the strap which unites the principal and tiebeam, it cannot move from its place at the extremity 1853, Thomas Tredgold, Elementary Principles of Carpentry:

Forms

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tie-beam alternative lexicographic
tiebeams Number=Plur lexicographic

Translations (6)

fr entrait (beam acting as a tie at the bottom of a pair of principal rafters) · de Spannbalken (beam acting as a tie at the bottom of a pair of principal rafters) · he קוֹשֶׁרֶת (beam acting as a tie at the bottom of a pair of principal rafters) · de Zugträger (beam acting as a tie at the bottom of a pair of principal rafters) · de Bindebalken (beam acting as a tie at the bottom of a pair of principal rafters) · de Zuganker (beam acting as a tie at the bottom of a pair of principal rafters)