noun
Meaning 1
A (short) member of a kind of roof truss (a hammer-beam truss), so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: architecture
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