lintel
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of lintel
1350–1400; Middle English lyntel < Middle French lintel, dissimilated variant of *linter < Latin līmitāris originally, belonging to or indicating a boundary; later taken as synonym of līmināris originally, of the threshold. See limit, -ar 1
Example Sentences
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More than 40 marks were painted inside the passage and tomb, including fingerprints, handprints, diamond shapes and circles, and large symbols on the internal lintels.
From BBC
"One high-speed line for the west, one for the east and - across the fireplace - a lintel, Northern Powerhouse rail," he says.
From BBC
In 2021, the San Francisco Asian Art Museum returned two hand-carved religious artifacts — sandstone lintels dating back to the 9th and 10th centuries — to the Thai government.
From Seattle Times
Finding a Miyake event in wood from a Mesoamerican structure—such as a lintel in the Maya temple Tikal in Guatemala, whose construction is recorded in the Long Count—would settle the matter.
From Science Magazine
They restored the bronze lintels and pink granite along Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard.
From New York Times
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