- Roof beam
- Roof or ceiling beam
- Supporting beam
- A piece of timber laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which
the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling,
are nailed; -- called, according to its position or use, binding joist,
bridging joist, ceiling joist, trimming joist, etc. See Illust. of
Double-framed floor, under Double, a.
- To fit or furnish with joists.
- A sloping roof timber
- Roof beam
- Roof support
- Timber beam
- A raftsman.
- Originally, any rough and somewhat heavy piece of timber.
Now, commonly, one of the timbers of a roof which are put on sloping,
according to the inclination of the roof. See Illust. of Queen-post.
- To make into rafters, as timber.
- The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece.
- The beam in the angle of a roof; hence, the roof itself.
- Dorm ain’t sleeping after I depart
- Inactive
- Latent
- Quiet man trod carefully
- Sleeping
- Sleeping; as, a dormant animal; hence, not in action or
exercise; quiescent; at rest; in abeyance; not disclosed, asserted, or
insisted on; as, dormant passions; dormant claims or titles.
- In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; --
distinguished from couchant.
- Arch
- Arch over
- Bridge
- Bridge across
- bridge the gap
- Complete extent
- Extend across
- 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.