womoe purlin: horizontal beam in the roof structure, situated half way [...]

Part of Speech	noun
Phonetic Form	womoe

• • purlin: horizontal beam in the roof structure, situated half way up, between the stringpiece and the ridge beam (pumene)
  • • Archi

  Encyclopedic Info

  There are normally two such purlins on each side of the roof.

Related entries

• See also:
  • nengele moe the various structural components of a house and its roof