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hammer beam roof noun

  • (architecture) A roof supported by a kind of roof 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.
 Dachstuhl mit Stichbalken, Polygonaldach
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