All lintel synonyms

noun lintel

• girder — a large beam, as of steel, reinforced concrete, or timber, for supporting masonry, joists, purlins, etc.
• scaffolding — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
• joist — any of a number of small, parallel beams of timber, steel, reinforced concrete, etc., for supporting floors, ceilings, or the like.
• shaft — a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances, halberds, or arrows.
• pillar — an upright shaft or structure, of stone, brick, or other material, relatively slender in proportion to its height, and of any shape in section, used as a building support, or standing alone, as for a monument: Gothic pillars; a pillar to commemorate Columbus.
• pole — Reginald, 1500–58, English cardinal and last Roman Catholic archbishop of Canterbury.
• plank — a long, flat piece of timber, thicker than a board.
• timber — the wood of growing trees suitable for structural uses.
• piling — a cylindrical or flat member of wood, steel, concrete, etc., often tapered or pointed at the lower end, hammered vertically into soil to form part of a foundation or retaining wall.
• sill — Mount, a mountain in E central California, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. 14,153 feet (4314 meters).
• strip — to cut, tear, or form into strips.
• bail — Bail is a sum of money that an arrested person or someone else puts forward as a guarantee that the arrested person will attend their trial in a law court. If the arrested person does not attend it, the money will be lost.
• bolster — If you bolster something such as someone's confidence or courage, you increase it.
• stanchion — an upright bar, beam, post, or support, as in a window, stall, ship, etc.
• prop — to support, or prevent from falling, with or as if with a prop (often followed by up): to prop an old fence; to prop up an unpopular government.
• trestle — a frame typically composed of a horizontal bar or beam rigidly joined or fitted at each end to the top of a transverse A-frame, used as a barrier, a transverse support for planking, etc.; horse.
• pile — the lower of two dies for coining by hand.
• boom — If there is a boom in the economy, there is an increase in economic activity, for example in the amount of things that are being bought and sold.
• stud — a studhorse or stallion.
• spar — (during World War II) a woman enlisted in the women's reserve of the U.S. Coast Guard (disbanded in 1946).
• brace — If you brace yourself for something unpleasant or difficult, you prepare yourself for it.
• rafter — a flock, especially of turkeys.
• balk — If you balk at something, you definitely do not want to do it or to let it happen.
• reach — to get to or get as far as in moving, going, traveling, etc.: The boat reached the shore.
• stay — (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
• axle — An axle is a rod connecting a pair of wheels on a car or other vehicle.
• post — power-on self-test
• strut — to walk with a vain, pompous bearing, as with head erect and chest thrown out, as if expecting to impress observers.
• column — A column is a tall, often decorated cylinder of stone which is built to honour someone or forms part of a building.
• jamb — Architecture, Building Trades. either of the vertical sides of a doorway, arch, window, or other opening. either of two stones, timbers, etc., forming the sidepieces for the frame of an opening.
• crosspiece — a transverse beam, joist, etc
• crossbar — A crossbar is a horizontal piece of wood attached to two upright pieces, for example a part of the goal in football.
• lath — a thin, narrow strip of wood, used with other strips to form latticework, a backing for plaster or stucco, a support for slates and other roofing materials, etc.
• stringer — a person or thing that strings.
• cantilever — A cantilever is a long piece of metal or wood used in a structure such as a bridge. One end is fastened to something and the other end is used to support part of the structure.
• two-by-four — two units thick and four units wide, especially in inches.
• scantling — a timber of relatively slight width and thickness, as a stud or rafter in a house frame.
• support — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
• frame — a border or case for enclosing a picture, mirror, etc.
• baulk — the space, usually 29 inches deep, between the baulk line and the bottom cushion
• beam — If you say that someone is beaming, you mean that they have a big smile on their face because they are happy, pleased, or proud about something.
• transverse — lying or extending across or in a cross direction; cross.