tiebeam
See also: tie beam
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tiebeam (plural tiebeams)
- (architecture) A beam acting as a tie, as at the bottom of a pair of principal rafters, to prevent them from thrusting out the wall.
- 1853, Thomas Tredgold, Elementary Principles of Carpentry:
- by being connected with the strap which unites the principal and tiebeam, it cannot move from its place at the extremity
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- “tiebeam”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.