Lintel in a sentence

Summerson, 19-21 Lintel beams further In architecture, a post-and-lintel or trabeated system refers to the use of horizontal beams or lintels which are borne up by columns or posts.

I think they are almost at lintel level.

It was originally built for a Lt Col T Donaldson, who had connections with the Royal Artillery and army and whose initials can be seen on the door lintel.

They were discovered on a lintel where they are assumed to have settled after falling between floorboards about 350 years ago.

I’d snap back into the moment — the whirring of the fan above me or a squirrel on a lintel might be triggers.

Take Underneath the Lintel, which, as Segal boss Lisa Rubin points out, is actually set in a theatre that has been dark for a long time.

Von Lintel wanted to expand on that, while eliminating any return correspondence.

A diagram illustrating the components of a panel door Doorway components When framed in wood for snug fitting of a door, the doorway consists of two vertical jambs on either side, a lintel or head jamb at the top, and perhaps a threshold at the bottom.

And if you say to Brick, ‘Look, arches are expensive, and I can use a concrete lintel over you.

For example, they had a "peg rail," a continuous wooden device like a pelmet with hooks running all along it near the lintel level.

Leaving the tower without bending, she banged her head against the lintel of the door, which prompted one of her guards to ask her if she was hurt, to which she answered: "No!

Openings Door and window openings were spanned with a lintel, which in a stone building limited the possible width of the opening.

Some scholars have endeavored to develop a periodization of lintel styles.

The architectural elements used in the world's first large-scale stone building, Djoser 's mortuary complex, include post and lintel supports in the papyrus and lotus motif.

The distance between columns was similarly affected by the nature of the lintel, columns on the exterior of buildings and carrying stone lintels being closer together than those on the interior, which carried wooden lintels.

The entrance to the mantapa normally has a highly ornate overhead lintel called a makaratorana (makara is an imaginary beast and torana is an overhead decoration).

The opening of the portal may be arched, or may be set with a lintel supporting a tympanum, generally carved, but in Italy sometimes decorated with mosaic or fresco.

The two posts are under compression from the weight of the lintel (or beam) above.

Tie-beam trusses allowed for much larger spans than the older prop-and-lintel system and even concrete vaulting.

When creating window and door openings, a lintel is placed on top of the opening to support the bricks above.