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