hammerbeam

[ham-er-beem]

ham·mer·beam

[ham-er-beem]
noun Architecture.
a short wooden beam projecting from an interior wall to support or tie together rafters or arched roof braces.
Also, hammer beam.
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Hammerbeam is always a great word to know.
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a sky lit central court in a contemporary building or house; a courtyard, flanked or surrounded by porticoes, in front of an early Christian church
a series of regularly spaced columns supporting an entablature and usually making up one side of a roof
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