summer-piece

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summer-piece (plural summer-pieces)

  1. (architecture, obsolete) a horizontal load-bearing beam in a building or other structure; (in later use) spec. the main beam supporting the girders or joists of a floor (or occasionally the rafters of a roof).
  2. (US) a fireboard

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