Building. A cross-beam or brace fixed between two rafters on opposite sides of a roof, either to tie or bind them together to provide structural…

A wooden ceiling. Obsolete.

Vaulting, vaulted roof or ceiling.

Architecture. A ceiling coved on two opposite sides only.

= laquear, n.

a ceiling which slants to meet the wall, as in attics, etc., apparently now corrupted into camp ceiling, n.

Architecture. (See quots.)

(a) a long piece of timber serving to connect and support a framework (e.g. a floor, bridge); a longitudinal railway-sleeper (U.S.); a heavy…

one rising in an arched curve; now usually one connected with the cornice by a concave curve.

Architecture. = conch, n. 5; also, a coved ceiling.

(Chiefly Mechanics) Subsidiary, supplementary; substituted for or serving to supplement the thing… Architecture in false pillar, false roof (see…

(see quot.).

Supported by attachment above; hung; hanging. †suspended bridge = suspension-bridge, n. suspended ceiling, a ceiling fixed so as to alter the…