lintel
/ˈlɪnt(ə)l
/noun
A horizontal support of timber, stone, concrete, or steel across the top of a door or window.It bears all the hallmarks of a Post-Modernist interpretation of a historical facade, with architraves and lintels in cast aluminium....
- The next horizontal layer has occasional punched window openings with expressed timber lintels.
- Precast copings, window lintels, and string courses have a terra-cotta color, without exposed aggregate.
Derivatives
lintelled
Origin
Middle English: from Old French, based on late Latin liminare, from Latin limen 'threshold'.
Rhymes
- as rare (or scarce) as hen's teeth
- (as) red as a beetroot (beet)
- as regards
- as regular as clockwork
- (as) right as a trivet
- (as) right as rain
- (as) rough as guts
- ass
- -ass
- Assad, Hafiz al-
- as safe as houses
- assagai
- assai
- assail
- assailable
- assailant
- Assam
- Assamese
- assart
- assassin
- assassinate
- assassination
- assassinative
- assassinator
- assassinatress