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Meaning of hammer beam | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

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A (short) member of a kind of roof truss (a hammer-beam truss), 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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B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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