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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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in architecture, a girder or main beam of a floor; if supported on two storey posts and open below, it is called a bress or breast-summer. The word is also spelled "summer," and is the same as "Sumpter," a pack-horse, Fr. sommier, O. Fr., saume, from Low Lat. salma, pack, burden, Gr. afirypa, aaTTECV, to fasten a pack on a horse.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Sommer'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​s/sommer.html. 1910.
 
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