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beamless

adj

Etymology

From beam + -less.

  1. inherited from bēamian
  2. inherited from bemen
  3. derived from *bʰew-✻ — “to grow, swell”
  4. inherited from *baumaz✻ — “tree, beam, balk”
  5. inherited from *baum✻
  6. inherited from bēam — “tree, cross, gallows, column, pillar, wood, beam, splint, post, stock, rafter, piece of wood”
  7. inherited from beem
  8. suffixed as beamless — “beam + less”

Definitions

  1. Not having a beam.

    • […] a trend of beamless construction that became a norm of Islamic buildings.

  2. Not emitting light.

    • Then up a steep and dark and narrow stair We wound, until the torches’ fiery tongue Amid the gushing day beamless and pallid hung.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA