torsel

English

Noun

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.

References

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

Anagrams

• loster, ostler, reslot, rostel, solert, sterol