summertree

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a main horizontal beam supporting the joists of a floor or roof

   The old farmhouse's ceiling rested on a massive oak summertree.

A compound of summer (in the building sense, 'a load-bearing beam', from Old French somier 'pack-horse, beam', from Late Latin sagmarius 'pack-horse') and tree ('beam, piece of timber', from Old English treow).

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