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Breastsummer
A large, horizontal supporting beam which bears the weight of a wall starting on a first or higher floor. Particularly found in timber-frame overhang constructions.
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A large, horizontal supporting beam which bears the weight of a wall starting on a first or higher floor. Particularly found in timber-frame overhang constructions.
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| brestsummernoun | Alternative form of bressummer. [(architecture) A large, horizontal supporting beam which bears the weight of a wall starting on a first or higher floor, particularly when exposed or used to support a jetty (timber-frame overhang construction).] |
| bressummernoun | (architecture) A large, horizontal supporting beam which bears the weight of a wall starting on a first or higher floor, particularly when exposed or used to support a jetty (timber-frame overhang construction). |
| bressemernoun | (architecture) Alternative spelling of bressummer. [(architecture) A large, horizontal supporting beam which bears the weight of a wall starting on a first or higher floor, particularly when exposed or used to support a jetty (timber-frame overhang construction).] |
| bressumernoun | Alternative form of bressummer. [(architecture) A large, horizontal supporting beam which bears the weight of a wall starting on a first or higher floor, particularly when exposed or used to support a jetty (timber-frame overhang construction).] |
| summernoun | One of four seasons, traditionally the second, marked by the longest and typically hottest days of the year due to the inclination of the Earth and thermal lag. Typically regarded as spanning either the period between the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox, or the months of June, July, and August in the Northern Hemisphere and the months of December, January and February in the Southern Hemisphere. |
| summertreenoun | (architecture) A horizontal beam brought even with the face (breast) of a wall, to support a wall above a gap or opening; a beam bearing a load above. |
| summer-piecenoun | (US) a fireboard |
| summer-stonenoun | (architecture, obsolete) a stone on which a supporting beam rests, forming part of a wall. |
| beamnoun | A broad smile. |
| buttressnoun | (architecture) A brick, concrete or stone structure built against another structure to support it. |
| breastworknoun | A fortification consisting of a breast-high bulwark; a parapet. |
| chimneybreastnoun | Alternative form of chimney-breast. |
| breastrailnoun | The upper rail of a parapet of ordinary height, such as of a balcony, the railing of a boat, etc. |
| bridgingnoun | The act of building a bridge. |
| flying buttressnoun | (architecture) A buttress that stands apart from the structure that it supports, and is connected to it by an arch (flyer). |
| needle beamnoun | The horizontal cross timber which goes through the wall or a pier, and upon which the weight of the wall rests, when a building is shored up to enable alterations in the lower part. |
| overhangernoun | (architecture) One of the bricks forming an overhang. |
| spring beamnoun | (construction) A beam of considerable span, without central support; the tie beam of a truss. |
| butmentnoun | (masonry) The mass of stone or solid work at the end of a bridge, by which the extreme arches are sustained, or by which the end of a bridge without arches is supported. |
| cantilevernoun | (architecture) A beam anchored at one end and projecting into space, such as a long bracket projecting from a wall to support a balcony. |
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