tie beam

1. 1.

   a horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating

   “he nailed the rafters together with a tie beam”

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   Broaderbeam

Questions about tie beam

What does tie beam mean?

tie beam means "a horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating".

What is another word for tie beam?

Close synonyms include tie. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tie beam a common word?

tie beam is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.