bressummer
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editAlteration of breastsummer, from breast (“front or forward part”) + summer (“beam”).
Noun
editbressummer (plural bressummers)
- (architecture) A large, horizontal supporting beam which bears the weight of a wall starting on a first or higher floor, particularly when exposed or used to support a jetty (timber-frame overhang construction).
- 2022 September 7, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Railway towns and a social revolution”, in RAIL, number 965, page 56, photo caption:
- East Lodge at Queen's Park, Crewe, dates from 1887-1888. Its bressummer inscription commemorates the Jubilee of Queen Victoria and the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Grand Junction Railway.
Hypernyms
edit- summer (“horizontal beam”)
Further reading
edit- bressummer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- bressummer, breastsummer, bressemer, brestsummer at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.