A strong horizontal timber (occasionally a stone or iron substitute for this) serving as the foundation of a wall (esp. in the building of framed…

A beam, plank, or piece of timber forming a support, base, or foundation to something.

A short strut or stay set diagonally to support an upright timber; a shore, prop, or sustaining pillar; a sloping buttress.

Building and Mechanics. A timber or scantling used in a roof or other trussed framework to stiffen the assemblage of pieces composing it; a piece…

Originally (in quot. 1574): a bar or bolt for a door. In later use: a bar or post for supporting a building or other structure; a stay or prop; spec.…

A bar, rod, or built-up member, of wood, iron, etc., designed to resist pressure or thrust in a framework; e.g. a diagonal timber which acts as a…

a main pin or beam in any structure.

The lowest horizontal timber in a framing; a ground-sill.

= strutting-beam n. at strutting, n.2 compounds.

†(a) a piece of timber to serve as the gunwale of a boat; (b) a horizontal timber connecting and binding the piles or posts of a bridge, dam, etc.

= strutting piece n.

Each of the horizontal timbers connecting and bracing the piles of a dam, etc. Also, = waling, n.2 1.

A bar serving as a stay or brace. A buttress in masonry; a tie-beam in joinery; in trench timbering, a temporary strut.

Architecture, etc. A beam or rod used to ‘tie’ or bind together two parts of a building or other structure by counteracting a tensile strain which…

a horizontal beam which acts as a tie: see esp. quot. 1823.

concrete. Struts collectively.

a bolt which ties together the component parts of a structure.

(a) a long tie-bolt or iron rod which acts as a tie in a building or other structure; (b) a track rod, or one of the rods of which it is…

a connecting rod used to support or give rigidity to any part of a structure.

One or more thick panels connecting the load-bearing flanges of a girder, beam, or other structural support; (occasionally also) †each of the…

a hollow girder with a square, rectangular, or trapezoidal cross-section.

a girder formed of a plate or plates of iron or steel.

= lattice girder n.

a girder consisting of two horizontal bars connected by diagonal bars crossed so as to resemble latticework.

An iron or steel longitudinal beam employed for a similar purpose; esp., a latticed, plate, or other compound structure used to form the span of a…

A girder. Cf. twist, n.1 3b.

(under-, prefix1 affix 2b(b).)

a beam forming part of a truss; also a beam, or iron frame used as a beam, strengthened with a tie-rod or struts, so as to form a truss.

An inclined beam or strut.

connecting members designed to stiffen a building or other structure against the wind; the provision of such members.

a horizontal member rigidly joining the tops of two uprights, esp. in a portal frame.

In reinforced concrete construction, each of the vertical or diagonal members which bind together the upper and lower reinforcement of a beam, etc.

a strut fixed diagonally between the lower chord of a truss and one of its supporting columns.

attributive. Shaped like a T, having a cross-piece at the top or end, as tee-beam, tee-frame, tee-iron, tee-joint, tee-piece, tee section, tee slot…

attributive. Shaped like a T, having a cross-piece at the top or end, as tee-beam, tee-frame, tee-iron, tee-joint, tee-piece, tee section, tee slot…

A connecting piece that holds the several parts of any structure together. A long stone that passes quite through a wall, and gives support to the…