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单词 half-principal
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half-principal
half-principal n. Building (now rare) a rafter which does not extend to the crown of the roof and is supported by a purlin; cf. principal n. 6.
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1847 E. L. Blackburne Sketches Hist. Decorative Painting Eng. Archit. 88 In the same room is an oak panelled ceiling, on which much of the old painting remains. It is framed in four panels, rising slightly to a ridge, with a kind of half principal, with hanging brackets at each end, against the north and south walls... The half principals and brackets are curiously painted, and are crowned with a carved crest.
1917 Cassier's Engin. Monthly Aug. 89/2 The main structure is sufficiently extended upwards to support also the half principals of the roof.
1958 Chambers's Techn. Dict. (ed. 3) 399 Half-principal, a short rafter which does not reach the ridge of a roof.
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half-principal n. Carpentry ‘a rafter which does not extend to the crown of the roof’ (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1875).
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