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Rarehammer beam
The correct spelling is hammer beam.
How to pronounce hammer beam
noun
Say it like: Ham-mer- bee-m
The correct spelling is hammer beam. 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 situatio…
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noun
- 1.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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