Tiebeam

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A beam acting as a tie, as at the bottom of a pair of principal rafters, to prevent them from thrusting out the wall.

    "by being connected with the strap which unites the principal and tiebeam, it cannot move from its place at the extremity"

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"by being connected with the strap which unites the principal and tiebeam, it cannot move from its place at the extremity"

Etymology

From tie + beam.

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