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Meanings of lintel in anglès
A horizontal structural beam spanning an opening, such as between the uprights of a door or a window, and which supports the wall above.
Usage of lintel in anglès
1
The column, being vertical, is Yo; the lintel, being horizontal, is In.
2
The doorposts are green, the lintel is of silver taken in battle.
3
Peace fired once, the shot striking the lintel of the passage doorway.
4
The old man lifted his high, showing the lintel of the door.
5
I looked up at the lintel, and something told me to try.
6
As we withdrew, our beams widened, illuminating words carved above the lintel.
7
It reappeared like a gold thread under the lintel-andvanished for good.
8
He almost knocked out the lintel, but little harm it did him.
9
Instead he bowed under a low lintel into an opulent main restaurant.
10
But he forgot to stoop, and struck his head against the lintel.
11
And finally Canute himself stood under the lintel, storming through his laughter.
12
There was the broken lintel, with rubble heaped around a narrow opening.
13
Its sill and lintel were decorated with thirty or forty human-looking skulls.
14
Casting that shadow, under the lintel, a young man clad for travel.
15
Rashid Al Harum entered, ducking his head slightly to clear the lintel.
16
Ten years ago they dawdled under the lintel in hurling's house of respectability.
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Lintel across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
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