torsel

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torsel (plural torsels)

  1. (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
  2. A twisted scroll.

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