deck beam

British  

noun

1. nautical a stiffening deck member supported at its extremities by knee connections to frames or bulkheads

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deck beam

Or, he could have typed into a search engine, “connect deck beam to post” — and hoped he would find the correct answer.

From Washington Post

It fell inward with a dull crash and as it did so the professor leaped backward with a startled cry, stumbling over a deck beam and sprawling in a heap.

From The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash or Facing Death in the Antarctic by John Henry Goldfrap

This required a bowsprit, but as we had little time to spare we used the jib-boom of the ice boat, nailing it to the deck beam of the canoe.

From The Scientific American Boy Or, The Camp at Willow Clump Island by A. Russell (Alexander Russell) Bond

A severed and dangling piston rod crashed in monotonous rhythm against a deck beam as the rest of the auxiliary compression unit strained to satisfy its function.

From Spillthrough by Daniel F. Galouye

"Come back!" said the deck beam, savagely, as the upward heave of the sea made the frames try to open.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896 by Various