Words starting with strainingsi
Maybe these words will be useful:
- straining at the leash — eagerly impatient to begin something
- straining — to draw tight or taut, especially to the utmost tension; stretch to the full: to strain a rope.
- straining arch — an arch for resisting thrusts, as in a flying buttress.
- straining piece — (in a queen-post roof) a horizontal beam uniting the tops of the two queen posts, and resisting the thrust of the roof.
- straining sill — (in a roof with a queen post) a compression member lying along the tie beam and separating the feet of the struts.