Word Meanings - HAMMER-BEAM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A member of one description of roof truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is 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.

• HAMMERDRESSED
  Having the surface roughly shaped or faced with the stonecutter's hammer; -- said of building stone.
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Membership
  The state of being a member.
• Server
  One who serves.
• HAMMERHARDEN
  To harden, as a metal, by hammering it in the cold state.
• Calliope
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
• Callous
  Hardened; indurated.
• Hammered
  of Hammer
• Occupying
  of Occupy
• Situation
  Manner in which an object is placed; location, esp. as related to something else; position; locality site; as, a house in a pleasant situation.
• HAMMERLESS
  Without a visible hammer; -- said of a gun having a cock or striker concealed from sight, and out of the way of an accidental touch.
• Calliopsis
  A popular name given to a few species of the genus Coreopsis, especially to C. tinctoria of Arkansas.
• Hammering
  of Hammer
• Occupy
  To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess.
• Tiebeam
  A beam acting as a tie, as at the bottom of a pair of principal rafters, to prevent them from thrusting out the wall. See Illust. of Timbers, under Roof.

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