tiebeam

See also: tie beam

English

Alternative forms

tie-beam

Etymology

tie +‎ beam

Noun

tiebeam (plural tiebeams)

(architecture) A beam acting as a tie, as at the bottom of a pair of principal rafters, to prevent them from thrusting out the wall.
- 1853, Thomas Tredgold, Elementary Principles of Carpentry:
  by being connected with the strap which unites the principal and tiebeam, it cannot move from its place at the extremity

Translations

beam acting as a tie at the bottom of a pair of principal rafters

French: entrait (fr) m

References

“tiebeam”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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