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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Work done in a beam-house.
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Its interior is upward of one hundred feet in length, oak-wainscoted, with deep beam-work ceiling, now black with age, and an enormous fireplace, which in winter still blazes with its old hospitable glow.
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2 Various 1885
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