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the unsung beam taking the wall's weight so your doorway can keep its shape
means the horizontal beam spanning the top of a door or window that carries the load of the wall above the opening
from From Old French 'lintier' or 'lintel,' a threshold or doorhead, going back to Latin 'limen' (threshold) — possibly blended with 'limes' (boundary, the same root behind 'limit'). The word's confusion of overhead beam and underfoot threshold is ancient: both mark the edge where wall becomes opening.
- ancient tech
- Stonehenge's horizontal stones are massive lintels
- name origin
- From Latin limen, meaning threshold
- hidden hero
- Spans openings doors and windows would otherwise collapse
- material range
- Made from stone, timber, steel, or concrete
parthenon lintel — architrave spanning the columns of the ancient greek temple in athens, built 447-432 bce
durbar square lintel — ornately carved wooden lintel in bhaktapur's 55-window palace, nepal, 15th century
chaco canyon lintels — wooden beams from ancestral puebloan great houses in new mexico, dated to 1000-1150 ce