lintel

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lin·tel /ˈlɪntl/ noun [countable]  TBBa piece of stone or wood across the top of a window or door, forming part of the frame 〔窗、门上的〕过梁

Examples from the Corpus

lintel• Forget to duck - whack; your head hits a lintel.• A bloody-mouthed mastiff tied by a chain to a lintel of a door snarled and barked.• Doors and lintels were decorated with whitewash.• Occasional low lintels bumped and scraped his head in the blackness.• Each one has its silvery gray live-oak lintel, still supporting the column of lovely pink brick.• Horse brasses had been tacked along the length of the oaken lintel and gleamed in the firelight.• We wedged it in place firmly, but not too tight against the lintel, leaving room for adjustment.• But again, as with the lintels, the union did not allow the bricklayers to use a plumb line.Origin lintel (1300-1400) Old French Latin limitaris “of an edge or boundary”, from limes; → LIMIT1

lin·tel nounChineseSyllable  

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lintel
lin‧tel /ˈlɪntl/ noun [countable]a piece of stone or wood across the top of a window or door, forming part of the frame

lintBrE /lɪnt/ 🔊NAmE /lɪnt/ 🔊 noun [uncountable] (especially BrE) a type of soft cotton cloth used for covering and protecting wounds （敷伤口用的）纱布(specialist) short fine fibres that come off the surface of cloth when it is being made （织物在制作过程中从表面掉落的）纤维屑，飞花(especially NAmE) (BrE usually fluff) small soft pieces of wool, cotton, etc. that stick on the surface of cloth （毛料、棉布等的）绒毛 lin·telBrE /ˈlɪntl/ 🔊NAmE /ˈlɪntl/ 🔊 noun (architecture 建筑) a piece of wood or stone over a door or window, that forms part of the frame （门窗的）过梁；门楣