LINTEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lintel mean? 

• LINTEL (noun)
  The noun LINTEL has 1 sense:

1. horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window

  Familiarity information: LINTEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LINTEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

header; lintel

Hypernyms ("lintel" is a kind of...):

beam (long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction)

 Context examples 

I turned to run down again towards the vault, where I might find the new entrance; but at the moment there seemed to come a violent puff of wind, and the door to the winding stair blew to with a shock that set the dust from the lintels flying.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

We passed the pretty cottage where the murdered man had lived, and walked up an oak-lined avenue to the fine old Queen Anne house, which bears the date of Malplaquet upon the lintel of the door.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Her foot is on the very lintel of the church, and yet he bars the way—and she, she thinks no more of the wise words and holy rede of the lady abbess, but she hath given a sobbing cry and hath fallen forward with his arms around her drooping body and her wet cheek upon his breast.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)