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lintel

[lin-tl] / ˈlɪn tl /


NOUN
jamb
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More than 40 marks were painted inside the passage and tomb, including fingerprints, handprints, diamond shapes and circles, and large symbols on the internal lintels.

From BBC

"One high-speed line for the west, one for the east and - across the fireplace - a lintel, Northern Powerhouse rail," he says.

From BBC

In 2021, the San Francisco Asian Art Museum returned two hand-carved religious artifacts — sandstone lintels dating back to the 9th and 10th centuries — to the Thai government.

From Seattle Times

Finding a Miyake event in wood from a Mesoamerican structure—such as a lintel in the Maya temple Tikal in Guatemala, whose construction is recorded in the Long Count—would settle the matter.

From Science Magazine

They restored the bronze lintels and pink granite along Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard.

From New York Times