Collar beam / collar tie: A horizontal timber uniting two opposite common rafters at a point below the ridge, usually in the upper half of the rafter length ...
Collar beam
in a roof, a horizontal beam framed to and serving to tie together a pair of rafters at some distance above wall-plate level.
Colonnette jambs ...
Collar
A Collar in a roof truss, a tie beam connecting the rafters at a level considerably above the wall plate.
Conduit ...
Collar: Horizontal timber member intended to restrain opposing roof slopes. Absence, removal or weakening can lead to Roof Spread.
Collar A horizontal tie beam of a roof, which is joined to opposing rafters at a level above that of the wall plates, designed to restrain opposing roof slopes. Absence, removal or weakening can lead to roof spread.
Collar Beam - Horizontal members spanning roof rafters to supplement roof strength and/or form ceiling joist in half-story construction.
Collar beam
- a horizontal timber which ties rafters together at a height above the wall plate, ie above the level of a tie beam.
See roof.
collar - (zoology) an encircling band or marking around the neck of any animal
stretch mark - a narrow band resulting from tension on the skin (as on abdominal skin after pregnancy) ...
ARCHED BRACE: a curved beam providing support to a roof by joining a collar beam to a wall plate or hammerbeam, a hammerbeam in one tier to a hammerbeam in another, or a hammerbeam to a wall plate. ARCHIVOLT: the under-surface of an arch.
Single-framed: if consisting entirely of transverse members (such as rafters with or without braces, collars, tie-beams, king-posts or queen-posts, etc. [see below] not tied together longitudinally.
Base crucks have blades rising from ground level to a tie-beam or collar-beam which supports the roof timbers. Full crucks have blades rising from ground level to the apex of the roof, serving as the main members of a roof truss.
Collar - Horizontal beam in a timber roof linking the rafters and so forming an A shaped truss.
Colonnade - A range of columns placed at regular intervals: a similar row, as of trees.
Frank Gehry on "green" building, and the need for architects to be environmentally responsible: "Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic.
The monuments are quite similar in their scale and conception with huge portal iwans behind which rise characteristic melon-shaped domes on high collars or drums.
Colarin - (also colarino or collarino) The little frieze of the capital of the Tuscan and Doric column placed between the astragal, and the annulets. It was called hypotrachelium by Vitruvius.
Camber - Of a horizontal timber, usually a tie-beam or a collar-beam, in which the centre is higher than the ends.
Campanile - A bell tower or any tower containing a bell, generally attached to a church.
 See also: Architecture, Timber, Beam, Member, Arch
  
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