hammer beam

== English == === Alternative forms === hammer-beam hammerbeam === Noun === hammer beam (plural hammer beams) (architecture) A (short) member of a kind of roof truss (a hammer-beam truss), so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ====