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Contignation :: Contignation (n.) The act or process of framing together, or uniting, as beams in a fabric..

Beaming :: Beaming (a.) Emitting beams; radiant.

Beam :: Beam (n.) The width of a vessel; as, one vessel is said to have more beam than another..

Emicant :: Emicant (a.) Beaming forth; flashing.

Summer :: Summer (n.) A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: (a) The lintel of a door or window. (b) The commencement of a cross vault. (c) A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a wall to a girder. Called also summertree..

Effluent :: Effluent (a.) Flowing out; as, effluent beams..

Bolster :: Bolster (n.) The crossbeam forming the bearing piece of the body of a railway car; the central and principal cross beam of a car truck.

Colter :: Colter (n.) A knife or cutter, attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard..

Sharebeam :: Sharebeam (n.) The part of the plow to which the share is attached.

Lath :: Lath (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..

Transom :: Transom (n.) One of the crossbeams connecting the side frames of a truck with each other.

Nettles :: Nettles (n. pl.) Small lines used to sling hammocks under the deck beams.

Caber :: Caber (n.) A pole or beam used in Scottish games for tossing as a trial of strength.

Hornbeam :: Hornbeam (n.) A tree of the genus Carpinus (C. Americana), having a smooth gray bark and a ridged trunk, the wood being white and very hard. It is common along the banks of streams in the United States, and is also called ironwood. The English hornbeam is C. Betulus. The American is called also blue beech and water beech..

Flitch :: Flitch (n.) One of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or built beam..

Quickbeam :: Quickbeam (n.) See Quicken tree.

Pad :: Pad (n.) A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.

Strong :: Strong (superl.) Solid; tough; not easily broken or injured; able to withstand violence; able to sustain attacks; not easily subdued or taken; as, a strong beam; a strong rock; a strong fortress or town..

Large :: Large (superl.) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; -- said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter..

Stop :: Stop (n.) The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.

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