Usually means: Horizontal beam connecting opposite walls.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. tie beam: Merriam-Webster
  2. tie beam: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tie beam: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tie beam: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tie beam: Vocabulary.com
  6. tie-beam: Wordnik
  7. tie beam: Wiktionary
  8. tie beam: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. tie beam: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. tie beam: Dictionary.com
  11. Tie beam: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. tie beam: Rhymezone
  13. tie beam: FreeDictionary.org
  14. tie beam: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. tie beam: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. TIE-BEAM: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tie beam: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tie beam)

noun:  a horizontal beam that serves to prevent two other structural members from separating while forming the base of a triangular truss for a pitched roof.

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