But the body just kept banging upwards into a horizontal beam.

Whatever the precise form of the support, it was always used to carry a horizontal beam.

One very ugly idol we passed rested on a horizontal beam placed on two upright posts.

With the frame anchored securely, resting against trees or a horizontal beam, the hides were straked.

He sat down on the edge of the bed in a horizontal beam of sunlight, and made the tea.

Purpose: We quantified the inter-fractional changes associated with passive carbon-ion radiotherapy using vertical and horizontal beam fields for prostate cancer.

He paused before a horizontal beam along the side wall and pointed to a little pile of ashes and a cigar stub.

The ridge pole is the highest horizontal beam in a roof & usually goes in when the structure is about one third finished.

This horizontal beam has warped a little in the course of time, the alternate heat and cold of summers and winters that make centuries.

After that the patibulum -the horizontal beam of the cross -was tied to the victim across both shoulders, right behind his neck.'

These were connected at the tops by a horizontal beam and from each post was stretched another beam, whose farther end rested on the rock.

The ARCHITRAVE is a succession of horizontal beams resting upon the columns.

Then come the struts, the main pieces which join the horizontal beams.

The best and simplest consist of two equilateral triangles connected by horizontal beams.

To these were fixed horizontal beams, the whole covered with mud and straw.

These horizontal beams are connected by upright strips, 4 feet long, called stanchions.