dragon-piece

dragon piece

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dragging piece

noun
(in a hipped roof) a short beam holding the foot of a hip rafter to counteract its thrust.
Also called dragging beam, dragon beam, dragon piece.
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Dragon-piece is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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