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• Breastsummer — Breast sum mer, n. (Arch.) A summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long lintel; a girder; used principally above shop windows. [Written also {brestsummer} and… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• breastsummer — /bres sum euhr, brest , bres euh meuhr/, n. Archit. a horizontal beam supporting an exterior wall over an opening, as a shop window. Also called breast beam. [1605 15; BREAST + SUMMER2] * * * …   Universalium

• breastsummer — n. horizontal beam that supports an outside wall over an opening …   English contemporary dictionary

• breastsummer — noun Architecture a beam across a broad opening, sustaining a superstructure. Origin C17: from breast and summer2 …   English new terms dictionary

• breastsummer — breast·sum·mer …   English syllables

• breastsummer —   see bressummer …   Dictionary of difficult words

• breastsummer — n. Archit. a beam across a broad opening, sustaining a superstructure. Etymology: BREAST + SUMMER(2) …   Useful english dictionary

• bressummer — Breastsummer Breast sum mer, n. (Arch.) A summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long lintel; a girder; used principally above shop windows. [Written also… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• brestsummer — Breastsummer Breast sum mer, n. (Arch.) A summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long lintel; a girder; used principally above shop windows. [Written also… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Jettying — This article is about the building technique. For structures, see jetty. A double jettied timber framed building. The ends of the cantilevered beams supporting the upper floors can easily be seen. Jettying is a building technique used in medieval …   Wikipedia

• Bressummer — A bressummer, or breastsummer, in timber building, is a beam in the outward part of the building, and the middle floors, (not in the garrets or ground floors) into which the girders are framed. In the inner parts of a building, such beams are… …   Wikipedia