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English
Etymology
cross + beam
Noun
crossbeam (plural crossbeams)
- A horizontal structural beam that runs perpendicular to the primary support beams; a girder.
- The workman hung a light from a crossbeam between the main joists.
- (nautical) A beam laid across the bitts, to which the cable is fastened when riding at anchor.
Alternate forms
Translations
a horizontal structural beam; a girder
- Albanian: shtalkë (sq) f
- Aramaic:
- Classical Syriac: ܗܪܡܣܐ m
- Azerbaijani: atma
- Crimean Tatar: tartma
- Dutch: dwarsbalk (nl) m
- Finnish: poikkipalkki, poikkipuu (fi)
- Galician: travesa (gl), trabe (gl)
- German: Balken (de) m
- Greek: τραβέρσα (el) f (travérsa), διαδοκίδα (el) f (diadokída)
- Ancient: στρωτήρ m (strōtḗr)
- Icelandic: biti m, slá (is) f
- Irish: bíoma trasna m
- Italian: traversa (it) f
- Korean: 심방 (ko) (simbang)
- Latin: epistȳlium n, trānstrum n
- Malay: alang, gulung-gulung
- Maori: whiti, kaho
- Middle English: traunsom
- Norwegian: tverrbjelke m
- Portuguese: travessa (pt) f
- Romanian: spetează (ro) f
- Russian: попере́чина (ru) f (poperéčina), ба́лка (ru) f (bálka), перекла́дина (ru) (perekládina)
- Samoan: so'a
- Spanish: barrote (es) m, sopanda (es) f, travesaño (es) m
- Tagalog: balagbag
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a beam laid across the bitts