28 February 2017

lintel

[lin-tl]

noun

1. a horizontal architectural member supporting the weight above an opening, as a window or a door.

Also, British, lintol.

Origin of lintel

Middle English, Middle French, Latin

1350-1400; Middle English lyntel < Middle French lintel, dissimilated variant of *linter < Latin līmitāris orig., belonging to or indicating a boundary; later taken as synonym of līmināris orig., of the threshold. See limit, -ar1

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Historical Examples

A lintel, consisting of a single stone, some two tons’ weight, was supported by the protruding jambs.
Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia
Thomas Forester

On the lintel of the gate and in the lock dust lies accumulated.
Chaldea
Znade A. Ragozin

At the door, in the middle of the end of the street, he paused and struck on the lintel three times with his gun-butt.
King–of the Khyber Rifles
Talbot Mundy

Anagram

in tell
let nil

Today’s quote

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

– Immanuel Kant

On this day

28 February 1942 – birth of Brian Jones. English guitarist for the Rolling Stones. Died 3 July 1969.

28 February 2007 – death of Billy Thorpe, English-born Australian rock legend. Front man for ‘Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs’. Born 29 March 1946.

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29 February 1940 – Hattie McDaniels wins an Oscar for her role as Mammy in Gone With The Wind. She is the first African-American to win an Oscar.

29 February 2012 – death of Davy Jones, singer with British 1960’s rock band, The Monkees. Born on 30 December 1945.