torsel

English

Noun

torsel (plural torsels)

(carpentry) A plate of timber for the end of a beam or joist to rest on.
- 1703, Joseph Moxon, Mechanical Exercises:
  you lay any Timber on Brickwork, as Torsels for Mantle-Trees to lye on
A twisted scroll.

References

“torsel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

loster, ostler, reslot, rostel, solert, sterol

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