Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A short beam attached to the foot of a principal rafter in a roof, in place of a tie-beam.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Gothic Arch.) A member of one description of roof truss, called
hammer-beam truss , which is so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer-beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam.
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Examples
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Parliamentary copyright images are reproduced with the permission of Parliament The hall has been altered over the centuries and its famous hammer-beam roof was built between 1394 and 1399.
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The rafters of the hammer-beam roof above were ancient martoz wood that had blackened and hardened over the decades until they resembled iron.
The Dreaming Void Hamilton, Peter F. 2007
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The magnificent hammer-beam roof of the Great Hall in which we met in daily session was partially destroyed by bombs during the last war.
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He armed himself with knife, hammer-beam, mind-blinder, swallowed a pellet of nerve-tonic, then unobtrusively made his way to the roof-deck.
The Languages of Pao Vance, Jack, 1916- 1958
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The noble hammer-beam roof is a fine specimen of its kind, spanning
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This was most probably a hammer-beam roof, and was coloured and gilded and decorated with angels holding shields.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See Joseph E. Bygate
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The strong, alien voice of the priest vibrated under the hammer-beam roof, and a loneliness unfelt before swamped their hearts, as they searched for places in the unfamiliar Church of England service.
Actions and Reactions Rudyard Kipling 1900
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The tapestried walls, the high windows, and the fine Perpendicular hammer-beam roof together form a magnificent and pleasing whole, one of the noblest halls of its period that the country has to show.
Hampton Court Walter Jerrold 1897
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This great hall with its two entrances at the lower end near the gateway, its magnificent hammer-beam roof, its daïs, its stained glass, was a worthy place of entertainment, and had been the scene of many great feasts and royal visits in the times of previous archbishops in favour with the sovereign, and of a splendid banquet at the beginning of Grindal's occupancy of the see.
By What Authority? Robert Hugh Benson 1892
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Richard II. raised the hall and gave it the splendid hammer-beam roof, one of the finest feats in carpentry extant.
Westminster The Fascination of London A. Murray Smith 1868
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