trave

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A crossbeam.
• noun A section, as of a ceiling, formed by crossbeams.
• noun A wooden frame used to confine a horse being shod.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To cross; thwart; run counter to.
• noun A crossbeam; a beam or timber-work crossing a building.
• noun A kind of shackle for a horse that is being taught to amble or pace.
• noun Also travis.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Arch.) A crossbeam; a lay of joists.
• noun A wooden frame to confine an unruly horse or ox while shoeing.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun architecture A crossbeam
• noun architecture A section formed by crossbeams

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a horizontal beam that extends across something