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A piece of timber with a cross section of 4 inches square.
adj
Fitted with an armature.
adv
(timber) method of sawing lengthwise a timber beam of rectangular cross section, diagonally from corner to corner, to form two beams of triangular cross section.
n
An embrasure; a hole through which arrows are shot.
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An embrasure; a hole through which arrows are shot
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(gymnastics) A gymnastics apparatus, a narrow wooden rail used in artistic (athletic) gymnastics.
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Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
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A post sunk in the ground to receive the bars closing a passage into a field.
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(ballet) A handrail fixed to a wall used for ballet exercises.
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Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
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a device for creating circular curves, which has a central pivot pin, and an outer curb scribing point, connected by a horizontal beam
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(gymnastics, slang) A gymnast proficient with or specializing in the balance beam.
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(nautical) Having much beam or breadth; wide.
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(carpentry) A notch cut into the underside of a rafter to ensure that it does not move when resting on the wall plate running across the top of a wall; a similar notch in other timber components.
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A unit of cubic measure for timber, equal to one foot square by one inch thick.
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(rare, poetic) A beam of light from the front of an automobile.
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Small hinged panel, usually cut into a door, with an opening just big enough for a cat to enter.
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Alternative spelling of cat flap [Small hinged panel, usually cut into a door, with an opening just big enough for a cat to enter.]
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Synonym of catslide roof
n
Any transverse bar or piece, such as a bar across a door, or the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor.
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(carpentry, nautical, archaic) A dovetail joint.
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The material from which a deck is made.
adj
Alternative form of flashboarded [Made with flashboard.]
n
The part of a drawing table that turns out to support the leaf.
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(Australia, UK, New Zealand) A length of sawn wood of cross section 4 inches by 2 inches, most often employed as structural framing lumber / timber.
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The main frame of a beam engine.
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(Anglo-Saxon, historical, kenning, music) A harp.
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(countable) A beam of this material.
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(engineering) An I-beam; a beam with a cross-section resembling the letter 'H'.
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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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(architecture) The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter.
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The quoin post of a lock gate.
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(engineering) A beam with cross-section shaped like a capital letter I (with serifs top and bottom), used in construction.
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(construction) An angular piece of timber strengthening a joint where two roof timbers meet.
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A board on which knives are cleaned or polished.
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(historical) A slit in a castle wall; today, any similar window for shooting a ranged weapon or letting in light. Also written loop hole.
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A strong beam resting on props, used as a temporary support during building repairs.
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A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
adj
Fitted with a peephole.
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(countable) A steel reinforcing bar in a reinforced concrete structure.
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A grate with a shutter behind it.
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Alternative form of ridgepole [A beam along the ridge of a roof to which the rafters are attached.]
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In sheet-metal roofing, a joint formed by bending up the edge of a sheet and folding it downward over the turned-up edge of the next sheet.
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A structure with a crosspiece used to support timber or other material for working.
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A weighing apparatus with a sliding weight, resembling a steelyard.
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(architecture) A similar opening in a wall or parapet that allows water to drain from a roof.
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An elastic bar at the top of a tilt hammer, jigsaw, etc.
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(construction, mechanical engineering) A structural member with a cross section shaped like the letter T.
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(countable) A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy support for something such as a roof.
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(military) A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval de frise.
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(construction) A length of lumber having a cross section of two inches by four inches, or in the case of dimensional lumber three and a half inches by one and a half inches.
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A kind of large steelyard for weighing merchandise.
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A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating.
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Alternative form of walking beam [In a vertical engine, a horizontal beam, usually trussed, that transmits power to the crankshaft through the connecting-rod.]
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