tiebeam

See also: tie beam

English

Alternative forms

• tie-beam

Etymology

From tie +‎ beam.

Noun

tiebeam (plural tiebeams)

1. (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

Translations

beam acting as a tie at the bottom of a pair of principal rafters

• French: entrait (fr) m

References

• “tiebeam”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.