tiebeam

See also: tie beam

English

Alternative forms

  • tie-beam

Etymology

From tie +‎ beam.

Noun

tiebeam (plural tiebeams)

  1. (architecture) A beam acting as a tie, as at the bottom of a pair of principal rafters, to prevent them from thrusting out the wall.
    • 1853, Thomas Tredgold, Elementary Principles of Carpentry:
      by being connected with the strap which unites the principal and tiebeam, it cannot move from its place at the extremity

Translations

References

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.