tie beam
a horizontal timber or the like for connecting two structural members to keep them from spreading apart, as a beam connecting the feet of two principal rafters in a roof truss.
Origin of tie beam
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How to use tie beam in a sentence
They were all volumes which he had read in his youth, and many times since, until they had become the very tie-beams of his mind.
A Duet | Arthur Conan DoyleThe tie beams, the deeply splayed windows, the interior shafts, all prove that we are engaged with a writer of Early English date.
Churches and Church Ornaments | William DurandusHe lay staring into the deep shadows among the tie-beams and rafters until it became impossible for him longer to remain quiet.
The Riverpark Rebellion | Homer GreeneThe plum puddings had been made, as usual, weeks beforehand, and hung in rags to the tie-beams and taken down and boiled again.
Children of the Bush | Henry LawsonFor this purpose the system of construction without tie-beams, known as the "De Dion type," has been adopted.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 303 | Various
British Dictionary definitions for tie beam
a horizontal beam that serves to prevent two other structural members from separating, esp one that connects two corresponding rafters in a roof or roof truss
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