In a timber-framed house: a horizontal beam fastened on or in a wall to support joists or rafters; a wall plate.

The main beam or ridge pole of a roof; = ridge piece, n.; (by extension) a home. Also figurative.

A long beam of wood in the roof of a house; in †wiver-tree, side-waver, n., top wiver.

A large roofing-timber or rafter, usually one of a pair. Also sile-tree.

A cross-beam tying the rafters of a roof: = collar-beam, n. 1.

A tie-beam.

A wooden beam. Obsolete.

A horizontal beam which runs along the length of a roof, resting upon the principal rafters at right angles and supporting the ordinary rafters or…

English regional (midlands and northern). A purlin. Usually in plural.

(a) = wind-beam, n.1 (see balk, n.1 11); (b) = windrow, n. (cf. balk, n.1 II.).

A beam. Obsolete. rare.

(See quots.)

? The spars of a roof.

Architecture. A horizontal beam connecting a pair of rafters, which prevents them from spreading or ‘sagging’ (bending in); it is attached about the…

A piece of timber so bent; a camber-beam.

= collar-beam, n. 1.

(see quots.)

any rafter of a length less than that of the slope of a roof; esp. one of a number, gradually decreasing in length, set at intervals along the edge…

A short beam projecting from the wall at the foot of a principal rafter in a roof, in place of a tie-beam.

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

(see quot.).

A rough-hewn roof timber or rafter, esp. such as are used in Pueblo buildings.

Architecture. Short for collar-beam, n.

A rib forming part of a roof-span.

One of a pair of curved timbers, forming with other pairs the framework of a house; = crock, n.5 Frequently attributive.