lintel
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Definition of lintel
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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A horizontal structural beam spanning an opening, such as between the uprights of a door or a window, and which supports the wall above.
“Athelny had told him that he lived in a house built by Inigo Jones; he had raved, as he raved over everything, over the balustrade of old oak; and when he came down to open the door for Philip he made him at once admire the elegant carving of the lintel.”
“Then we came to a tavern with vine-leaves over the lintel,”
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noun
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A horizontal structural beam spanning an opening, such as between the uprights of a door or a window, and which supports the wall above.
“Athelny had told him that he lived in a house built by Inigo Jones; he had raved, as he raved over everything, over the balustrade of old oak; and when he came down to open the door for Philip he made him at once admire the elegant carving of the lintel.”
“Then we came to a tavern with vine-leaves over the lintel,”
name
- The computing environment of the Linux operating system running on an Intel CPU; mostly in a server.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English lyntel, from Old French lintel, from Vulgar Latin *līntellus, for *līmitellus, diminutive noun from līmes. Equivalent to limit + -el.
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