queen post
either of a pair of timbers or posts extending vertically upward from the tie beam of a roof truss or the like, one on each side of the center.
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How to use queen post in a sentence
At the bend is a condition which resembles that of a hog-chain or truss-rod around a queen-post.
Some Mooted Questions in Reinforced Concrete Design | Edward GodfreyIf queen-post trusses are useless, some hundreds of thousands of hog-rods in freight cars could be dispensed with.
Some Mooted Questions in Reinforced Concrete Design | Edward GodfreyThis is just such a force as the truss-rod in a queen-post truss must take.
Some Mooted Questions in Reinforced Concrete Design | Edward GodfreyThe queen-post truss was remarkably developed by Palladio, a famous Italian architect of the sixteenth century.
Inventors at Work | George IlesBut the old style of king-post, queen-post, or hammer-beam roof was prevalent.
Chats on Old Furniture | Arthur Hayden
British Dictionary definitions for queen post
one of a pair of vertical posts that connect the tie beam of a truss to the principal rafters: Compare king post
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