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roofbeam

n. Any of the beams that form a roof.

Usage examples of "roofbeam".

He could plow your fields, dig your wells, raise a barn roofbeam all by himself.

The windows gaped like the empty eyesockets of some ancient skull, while the soaring chimneys and charred roofbeams now gave roost to a flock of cawing crows which rose in an ebon cloud, loudly shrieking protest, when a trio of dragoons clambered through a front window and drew the rusty bolts so that their officer might enter.

The bull was on top of him, blotting out the rainsodden sky, the long yellow ivories raised like roofbeams over his head, and the trunk already uncoiling to reach down and snatch Zouga up.