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Meaning of "breastsummer" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BREASTSUMMER

ˈbrɛsəmə


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BREASTSUMMER

noun
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conjunction
determiner
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Breastsummer is a noun.
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WHAT DOES BREASTSUMMER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Bressummer

A bressummer, breastsummer, summer beam are load bearing beams in a timber framed building. The word summer derived from sumpter or French sommier, “a pack horse“, meaning “bearing great burden or weight“. “To support a superincumbent wall”, “any beast of burden”, and in this way is similar to a wall plate. The use and definition of these terms vary but generally a bressummer is a jetty sill and a summer is an interior beam supporting ceiling joists, see below: ▪ In the outward part of the building, and the middle floors into which the girders are framed. In the inner parts of a building, such beams are called "summers". It is part of the timber frame construction in the over-hanging upper story in jettying. ▪ "Horizontal beam over a fireplace opening, or set forward from the lower part of a building to support a jettied wall, a jetty bressummer". ▪ "...usually the sill of the upper wall above a jetty; otherwise any beam spanning an opening and supporting a wall above." also called a "jetty sill".

Definition of breastsummer in the English dictionary

The definition of breastsummer in the dictionary is a summer or girder extending across a large opening in a building to support the wall above, used primarily over shop-fronts.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BREASTSUMMER

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BREASTSUMMER

breast enlargement · breast implant · breast lump · breast milk · breast pocket · breast pump · breast screening · breast wall · breast-beating · breast-fed · breast-feed · breast-feeding · breastbone · breastpin · breastplate · breastplough · breastrail · breaststroke · breaststroker · breastwork

WORDS THAT END LIKE BREASTSUMMER

bummer · cummer · drummer · glummer · gummer · hammer · high summer · hummer · Indian summer · midsummer · mummer · rummer · Saint Luke´s summer · Saint Martin´s summer · scummer · skummer · slummer · snow-in-summer · strummer · summer · thrummer

Synonyms and antonyms of breastsummer in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «breastsummer» into 25 languages

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स्तनसमयी
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architrave
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BREASTSUMMER»

Discover the use of breastsummer in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to breastsummer and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Victorian Contractors' and Builders' Price-Book, ...
And the thickness of such parapet must be, at the least, in every wall of the first rate of the first and second class, thirteen inches thick; and in every other external wall eight and a half inches thick. Breastsummers.—If a breastsummer have a ...
Charles MAYES (Civil Engineer and Architect.), 1862
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The Everyday Wife
Breastsummer. For S.H.P. At Àrst I barely noticed you: the darker skin, the double kiss of nipples, dot dot adorning the free state of my Áat brown little-girl body. Like buds that swell in spring, my body opened, a Áower – handfuls ripened to ...
Phillippa Yaa De Villiers, 2010
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Dictionary of Environmental Health
breastsummer. A long horizontal structural beam (nowadaysgenerallyasteel girder) supporting the main portionofthefrontofabuilding (such as the superstructure above a shop window). The name derives originally from a long wooden beam ...
David Worthington, 2003
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Dictionary of Architecture and Building Construction
Brep, B-rep see boundary representations. bressummer see breastsummer. brestsummer see breastsummer. Breteˆche see brattice. !103 Bretesse ́ see brattice. !103 brettice see brattice. !103 brick, building brick; a rectangular block made of ...
Nikolas Davies, Erkki Jokiniemi, 2008
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Illustrated Dictionary of Building
Joists tenoned into breastsummer Breastsummer A large lintel spanning a wide opening (supporting brickwork or masonry) often over a shop or bay window; formally of timber now concrete or steel. Breastsummer Broach Traditionally any  ...
Peter Brett, 2012
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Special consular reports
(3) Breastsummer s. — With regard to any breastsummers to be fixed to carry any front wall of any building. — If such breastsummers have a bearing at one end upon aparty wall or external wall, then it must be laid upon a templet or corbel of  ...
United States. Dept. of State. Bureau of Statistics, United States. Bureau of Foreign Commerce, United States. Dept. of Commerce and Labor. Bureau of Statistics, 1892
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Fire and Building Regulations in Foreign Countries
lf such breastsummers have a hearing at one end upon a party wall - or external wall, then it must be laid upon a templet or corbel of stone or wood or iron and the end of such breastsummer must not have its bearing solely upon such party ...
United States. Bureau of Foreign Commerce, 1892
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United States Congressional serial set
And if any such breastsummer have its bearings at each end upon a party wall or external wall, then it must bo laid upon a templet or corbel of stone or wood or iron, and the end of such breastsummer must not have its bearing solely upon ...
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Dictionary of Architectural and Building Technology
... of noise in a duct, through the duct walls, into the surrounding environment. breast beam Same as BREASTSUMMER . breastsummer Originally a long and heavy timber beam (or summer) carrying the frontage of a building (or breast).
Henry J. Cowan, Peter R. Smith, 2004
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The Child in Mind: A Child Protection Handbook
... ULTIMATE LOAD of a structural member that fails by FRACTURE. break-out noise The transfer of noise in a duct, through the duct walls, into the surrounding environment. breast beam Same as BREASTSUMMER. breastsummer Originally a ...
Judy Barker, Deborah Tamara Hodes, 2004

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BREASTSUMMER»

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A Back-to-School Booklist for New Readers
PIDDOCKS. BREASTSUMMER. MUMRUFFIN. JIGGERY-POKERY. GONGOOZLER. GNURR. “Words have a sound and shape, in addition to ... «New York Times, Aug 13»
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