Usually means: Short, horizontal beam in roofs.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. hammer beam: Merriam-Webster
  2. hammer beam: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hammer beam: Collins English Dictionary
  4. hammer-beam: Wordnik
  5. hammer beam: Wiktionary
  6. Hammer-beam, hammer beam: Dictionary.com
  7. Hammer-beam: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Hammer-beam: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Hammer-beam: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. hammer-beam: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Hammer-beam, hammer beam: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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

Definitions from Wiktionary (hammer beam)

noun:  (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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