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Definition of Crossbeams
1. crossbeam [n] - See also: crossbeam
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crossbeams
Literary usage of Crossbeams
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elevators: A Practical Treatise on the Development and Design of Hand, Belt by John H. Jallings (1918)
"crossbeams Design of Main Beam. Essential Conditions. A very important member of
the car is the top crossbeam. In estimating the proportions for this beam, ..."
2. Under Heaven's Brow: Pre-Christian Religious Tradition in Chuuk by Ward Hunt Goodenough (2002)
"The first timbers to be prepared were the two crossbeams or ... (Krämer 1932:225)
After the crossbeams had been shaped and smoothed, the long, ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1905)
"The testimony was clearly admissible, because it tended to contradict the
plaintiff's statement that the crossbeams were of insufficient size, ..."
4. Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicle by Roger E. Bilstein (1999)
"Marshall engineers had drawn up the first stage to mount the original four engines
at the ends of two heavy crossbeams at the base of the rocket. ..."
5. The Message of Greek Art by Harry Huntington Powers (1913)
"So the walls must be tied together by crossbeams, perhaps one for each rafter,
and the lower ends of the rafters must rest on these crossbeams and be ..."
6. Archaeologia Cantiana by Kent Archaeological Society (1859)
"Oaken beams, a foot square, first appeared, and then the planking of a quadrilateral
oaken shaft, to the depth of six feet; then heavy crossbeams, ..."
7. Memoirs by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (1913)
"... I found a second beam half burned, and evidently purposely hidden away.
While FIG. 4.— TIKAL: SECTION OF TEMPLE II. I. Five crossbeams of ..."
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