Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A crossbeam.
  • noun A section, as of a ceiling, formed by crossbeams.
  • noun A wooden frame used to confine a horse being shod.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A crossbeam; a beam or timber-work crossing a building.
  • noun A kind of shackle for a horse that is being taught to amble or pace.
  • noun Also travis.
  • To cross; thwart; run counter to.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Arch.) A crossbeam; a lay of joists.
  • noun A wooden frame to confine an unruly horse or ox while shoeing.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun architecture A crossbeam
  • noun architecture A section formed by crossbeams

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a horizontal beam that extends across something

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin trabs, trab-; see treb- in Indo-European roots.]

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From Middle English, from Middle French trave, from Latin trabem, accusative of trabs ("beam, thing made using beams")

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