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n.
A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams.
n.
One of the temporary wooden braces, placed horizontally across a frame to hold it in position until the deck beams are in; a cross-pawl.
v. t.
To make brilliant with beams.
n.
A hole or excavation in beams intended to be joined together, to receive the key which fastens them.
n.
A streak of planking carried round the inside of a vessel on the under side of the beams.
n.
A road prepared for easy transit of trams or wagons, by forming the wheel tracks of smooth beams of wood, blocks of stone, or plates of iron.
n.
The structure formed of beams, girders, etc., with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into stories. Floor in sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of floor in sense 2.
a.
Darting beams of light; casting light in rays; flashing; coruscating.
n. pl.
Small lines used to sling hammocks under the deck beams.
n.
The return of rays, beams, sound, or the like, from a surface. See Angle of reflection, below.
a.
Especially, emitting or darting rays of light or heat; issuing in beams or rays; beaming with brightness; emitting a vivid light or splendor; as, the radiant sun.
n.
The lowest deck of a vessel, esp. of a ship of war, consisting of a platform laid over the beams in the hold, on which the cables are coiled.
n.
Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber.
n.
A thin, narrow strip of wood, nailed to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting the tiles, plastering, etc. A corrugated metallic strip or plate is sometimes used.
v. t.
To throw suddenly or rapidly; to send forth; to emit; to shoot; as, the sun darts forth his beams.
a.
Casting a bright light; radiant; brilliant; resplendent; shining; splendid; as, refulgent beams.
v. i.
To throw back light, heat, or the like; to return rays or beams.
n.
A member of one description of roof truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is 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.
n.
An interior rib occasionally fixed in a ship's hold, reaching from the keelson to the beams of the lower deck, to strengthen her frame.
n.
To fasten with a nail or nails; to close up or secure by means of nails; as, to nail boards to the beams.
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