noun
definition
A horizontal structural beam spanning an opening, such as between the uprights of a door or a window, and which supports the wall above.
Examples of lintel in a Sentence
The lintel of the inner gate was formed by a single stone 18 ft.
The door of two leaves, with its posts and lintel, is of silver gilt.
In each gable a 2 light casement the curving lintel ornamented with a surround of projecting brick keystones.
On rear of main range can be seen a large blocked arch with cambered lintel, probably a doorway to the original barn.
The other doorway has a rotten lintel over the door.
To left of right hand bay a board door with plain lintel, similar door to left of left hand bay.
An open doorway with feature timber lintel over leads to the dining room.
Windows on rear range of 2 or 3 light double or triple rounded arch head within the stone lintel band.
The Soviets claim to build a flat brick arch lintel of six meters without a steel beam.
Go out to discuss soakaways; Ian takes down a " lintel " for us that was looking wobbly.
To avoid problems down the road, evaluate the door studs by running twine across opposite corners of the door opening from floor to lintel.
Moses summons the elders of Israel and orders them to kill the Passover and besprinkle the lintel and sideposts with a bunch of hyssop dipped in blood so that the Lord will pass over the door.
On the 10th day of the month every household shall take a firstling male without blemish, of sheep or goat, and should kill it on the 14th at even, and sprinkle the two sideposts and lintel with the blood, and eat the roasted flesh, not sodden, including head, legs and inwards; all remaining over until the morning to be burnt by fire.
The main entrance is called the Lion Gate, from the famous triangular relief which fills the space above its massive lintel.
The fall of trilithon 22 and its lintel opened a larger path to the wind, and added to the danger of further destruction.
The societies advised that trilithon 6, 7, with lintel - which had slewed round - and trilithon 56, which was leaning at a dangerous angle, should be examined with a view to replacement with as little excavation as possible; that the monolith and lintel 22 be replaced, and its companion sarsen (21) secured; and that trilithon 57, 58, should be re-erected in its place, which was exactly known.
The only window has a deeply splayed aperture, the sloping sill utilizing a cross slab; a modern lintel.
On the lintel, Meryra kneels to adore the cartouches of the Aten, King and Queen (now defaced ).
Next a wooden lintel immured in the wall but there is no evidence of a blocked embrasure.
At the top of this stage there is also a slit window with unchamfered jambs and a lintel that is splayed on the underside.
The Israelites were commanded to select on the tenth of Abib (Nisan) a he-lamb of the first year, without blemish, to kill it on the eve of the fourteenth and to sprinkle with its blood the lintel and sidepost of the doors of their dwellings so that the Lord should "pass over" them when he went forth to slay the first-born of the Egyptians.