Crucks

In this style of building the outer door frames extend into the roof and internal support for the roof timbers is provided by one or two pairs of curved timbers crucks set next to the door frames. ❋ Carla (2009)

He entered the wooden manor house at Hamleigh village with his head held high, and looked down his long nose at the huge, roughhewn wooden crucks supporting the roof, the wattle-and-daub walls, and the chimneyless open fire in the middle of the beaten-earth floor. ❋ FOLLETT, Ken (1989)

When two or more of these crucks were connected, they formed a primitive frame. ❋ Tedd Benson (1980)

When ance her ring-banes and spavies, her crucks and cramps, are fairly soupl'd, she beets to, beets to, and aye the hindmost hour the tightest. ❋ Robert Burns (1777)

When ance her ringbanes and spavies, her crucks and cramps, and fairly soupl'd, she beets to, beets to, and ay the hindmost hour the tightest. ❋ Robert Burns (1777)

The oldest part of the dwelling, thought to date from the late fourteenth century, consists of a hall of two twelve-foot bays reaching to the timbered roof, constructed around two oaken crucks that are pinned together to form the peak of the roof Before the Great Rebuilding of the 1560s, all the members of the household would have slept in the hall, around an open fireplace from which the smoke escaped through an opening in the thatch. ❋ Unknown (2008)