Usually means: Wooden beams projecting from walls.
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  1. hammerbeam: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. hammerbeam: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Hammerbeam)

noun:  Alternative form of hammer beam [(architecture) A 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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