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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In carpentry, a horizontal beam serving to support the ends of floor-joists, or resting on posts and supporting the wall of the stories above; a lintel. Also called
brest-summer . - noun In masonry, the first stone laid over a column or beam.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Arch.) A summer. See 2d
summer .
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