A horizontal structural beam that runs perpendicular to the primary support beams; a girder.
A beam laid across the bitts, to which the cable is fastened when riding at anchor.
A member of a kind of roof truss (a hammer-beam truss), so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam.