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.
A threshold; horizontal structural member of a building near ground level on a foundation or pilings, or lying on the ground, and bearing the upright portion of a frame; a sill plate.
A young herring.
The shaft or thill of a carriage.
A stratum of rock, especially an intrusive layer of igneous rock lying parallel to surrounding strata.
The inner edge of the bottom of an embrasure.
A threshold or brink across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
A raised area at the base of the nasal aperture in the skull.
A breast wall; window breast; horizontal brink which forms the base of a window.
Silly.