tie-beams

Thus it happened that one fine morning, when the doors of the church were naturally open for ventilation, and the singing birds fluttered in and alighted on the tie-beams of the roof, there was a marriage-service at the communion-rails, which hardly a soul knew of.

Life's Little Ironies 2006

A bark ceiling also was laid over the tie-beams which, while it prevented the dust from pouring down in such torrents through the interstices of the roof, also afforded a convenient loft for the storage of pumpkins and many other articles of domestic consumption.

Ralph Rashleigh 2004

Roof structure: central wooden truss with trussed rafter and bracing tie-beams.

Chapter 7 1995

If this is not possible, in order to economize on shuttering, temporary tie-beams will be needed to hold the beams in place (danger of slippage).

Chapter 7 1995

The underface of the tie-beams of the different rafters of the roof structure enable small section supports for the false ceiling to be attached.

Chapter 7 1995

The roof structure is entirely built from local 7 × 15 wood, so that the truss have to be built using tie-beams and trussed rafters bracing the king post and the struts.

Chapter 7 1995

The place had not been designed for tapestries, of course, but with a little effort he managed to wedge the tapestry rod diagonally across one corner, supported on one end by a step-back in the chimney and on the other by a gap betwixt a rafter and the wooden plate that topped the stone wall and anchored the tie-beams.

With a Single Spell Watt-Evans, Lawrence, 1954- 1987

Two monolith jambs support a huge lintel, cambered in the middle like the tie-beams of our sixteenth-century roofs.

The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Various

For this purpose the system of construction without tie-beams, known as the "De Dion type," has been adopted.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 Various

The main beams are those which are laid upon columns, pilasters, and antae; tie-beams and rafters are found in the framing.

The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio