Tie-beam (entrait), horizontal piece of timber, which receives at its extremities the foot of the blades of a principal or truss, and which is suspended in the middle by the king-post.
Tread (giron), is the width of a stair-step.
Tread (pas), is the level surface of a step on which the foot is placed.
Trimmer (chevêtre), piece of wood which, framed into two trimmer-joists, receives the ends of the joists, the space of the hearth-stone from the fireplace, or across the openings of doors or windows.
Trimmer-joist (solive d’enchevêtrure), stronger joist to receive the trimmers in front of a hearth-stone or across a chimney-breast.
Valley (noue), interior angle, formed by the meeting of two planes of roof.
Wall (mur). A gutter-wall is that which carries a gutter and receives the eaves of a roof; a gable-wall that which closes in the timber-work of a roof; a partition-wall that which within a building divides the rooms—takes the bearing of the floors and the chimney-flues.
Wall-face (parement), outer or inner surfaces of a wall.
Wall-plate (sablière), horizontal piece of wood laid on the top of a wall lengthwise, and on which rest the tie-beams of the principals and the feet of the rafters.
Water-bar (jet d’eau), projecting moulding affixed to the bottom rail of window-casements and to the wood-sills, and contrived to throw off the rain from the rebate, and from the junction of the wood-sill with the stone-sill.