header
2
6.8
- noun
- /ˈhɛdər/
- Specialized
:
dintel
- I made-up a header for the doorway and this should fit right in between here if I'm lucky.
- joists and headers
- header beam
- window header
Examples
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To do this, you frame the opening for the door with a beam, called a header, across its top.
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A wider window would have required a structural header under the sill.
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I can put a header beam up.
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There is duct work running through the wall, so it would be a pain to take out, and the header is steel.
Blog text (18) -
On one end, it rests on a window header.
Blog text (21) -
Windows are framed out by placing steel tube sills and headers between the previously installed pillars.
Academic text (2008) -
Way back in Civil War times, and maybe before, the Navajos had built a header dam in the San Juan River to divert waters and irrigate their cornfields.
Fiction book (1993) -
The jacks take the load from the header to the foundation walls and footing.
Synonyms
2
7.5
A beam across the top of a door or window that holds the wall
A long horizontal piece of wood on top of a wall supporting beams
A strong post that holds up a roof or wall, for example in a mine
Compounds
How Strong
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Header comes from head ('top') and the ending -er, and it names the beam or brick placed at the top of an opening to carry the weight above it.