Bressummer

Quick meaning: Bressummer is a noun meaning (architecture) A large, horizontal supporting beam which bears the weight of a wall starting on a first or higher floor, particularly when exposed or used to support a jetty (timber-frame overhang construction).

Meaning

(architecture) A large, horizontal supporting beam which bears the weight of a wall starting on a first or higher floor, particularly when exposed or used to support a jetty (timber-frame overhang construction).

Example Sentences

Once the floor joists were in position, the framing of the next storey could continue, with a bressummer laid along their ends.

East Lodge at Queen's Park, Crewe, dates from 1887-1888. Its bressummer inscription commemorates the Jubilee of Queen Victoria and the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Grand Junction Railway.

Word Forms

• bressummers
• breastsummer
• bressemer
• bressumer
• brestsummer
• breastsommer
• bressomer

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