king post.

A central vertical member connecting a roof truss’s apex region to its lower horizontal member.

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• timber king post

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A king post divided the triangular roof frame.

The carpenter examined the cracked king post.

Usage notes

Primary category: architecture. Forms: Singular king post; plural king posts. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.