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The definition of a lintel is a horizontal beam over an opening in a building that carries the weight of the wall above it.

(noun)

An example of a lintel is a piece of wood that goes across the top of two windows.

See lintel in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

the horizontal crosspiece over an opening, as a door, window, usually carrying the weight of the structure above it

Origin: OFr < VL *limitellus, for limitaris, altered (by assoc. with L limes, gen. limitis, border, frontier < L liminaris, of a threshold or lintel < limen: see limen

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noun

A horizontal structural member, such as a beam or stone, that spans an opening, as between the uprights of a door or window or between two columns or piers.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English

Origin: , from Old French

Origin: , probably alteration of lintier

Origin: , from Vulgar Latin *līmitāris, of a threshold (meaning influenced by Latin līmen, threshold)

Origin: , from Latin, on a border

Origin: , from līmes, līmit-, boundary

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