hammer beam

British

noun

either of a pair of short horizontal beams that project from opposite walls to support arched braces and struts

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A is the hammer beam, and C the pendant post.

From Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture With 250 Original Illustrations by Zerbe, James Slough

A form of roof truss in which the collar between rafters is used as the thrust bearing for the ribs which project up from the hammer beam.

From Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture With 250 Original Illustrations by Zerbe, James Slough

Certainly he had been sick a long while, since the sun-ray touched the face of the old abbot carved in that corner of the room to support the hammer beam.

From Stella Fregelius by Haggard, Henry Rider

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