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queen post
noun
- either of a pair of timbers or posts extending vertically upward from the tie beam of a roof truss or the like, one on each side of the center.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of queen post1
First recorded in 1815–25
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Example Sentences
At the bend is a condition which resembles that of a hog-chain or truss-rod around a queen-post.
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If queen-post trusses are useless, some hundreds of thousands of hog-rods in freight cars could be dispensed with.
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This is just such a force as the truss-rod in a queen-post truss must take.
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The queen-post truss was remarkably developed by Palladio, a famous Italian architect of the sixteenth century.
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But the old style of king-post, queen-post, or hammer-beam roof was prevalent.
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