beam fill

or beam filling

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noun Building Trades.

material, as concrete, for filling spaces between beams or joists in or on top of a masonry wall.

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Origin of beam fill

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English (in Anglo-Latin texts) bemfyllyng

Words nearby beam fill

beam brick, beam compass, beam-ends, beam engine, beamer, beam fill, beam hole, beaming, beamish, beam lights, beam mill

How to use beam fill in a sentence

But politicians abhor a rhetorical vacuum, and they have clamored to fill it.
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Back then, no one ever imagined needing to beam live video to ground troops from a fighter jet.
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His regular partner was late that day, and Police Officer Wenjian Liu volunteered to fill in.
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They are afflicted with “progressive spiritual emptiness,” he said, which no amount of academic honors and degrees can fill.
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It got so bad, that the school resorted to “Groupon-like services” to fill seats.
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To fill up the time till Liszt came, our hostess made us play, one after the other, beginning with the latest arrival.
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It was not an exalted niche to fill in life, but at least she had learned to fill it to perfection, and her ambitions were modest.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
The latter went immediately to look for his wife, and found her hidden in an attic, hanging to a beam.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624|Various
It's good for nothing but to choke a man and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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“Now this is what I call real felicity,” observed the major, pulling out a pipe which he proceeded to fill.
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