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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 called "summers".

It is part of the timber frame construction in the over-hanging upper story in jettying

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bressummer
Jan 01, 2000; bressummer. See breastsummer .
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breastsummer
Jan 01, 2000; breastsummer, bressummer , brest summer . Horizontal beam , cill , lintel , or plate over an opening in an external wall or a...
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jetty
Jan 01, 2000; jetty, jettie , jutty . 1. Projection of a timber-framed upper storey overhanging a wall beneath, usually formed by the...
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tree
Jan 01, 2000; tree. Large piece of timber, e.g. beam , lintel , Rood-beam , bressummer. See also tree-trunk .
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