Word: stringer
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...quite a start to look up and see the gray, mossy slope of the roof adorned by one human head, red faced, fat cheeked, with huge spectacles on and with an umbrella raised to protect it from the hot August sun. Whether the heroic watcher was standing on a stringer or whether kind hands supported him beneath, or whether he was prosaically seated on a tub, could be the subject only of the forlornest conjecture. The head alone was visible; and the head told no tales...
...Decay of parts, due to action of weather on unpainted stock, especially of the pin and surrounding wood which fastened the summer to the stringer...
...opinion is that the weight on the diagonal support pushed out the pile, separated the stringer and summer, tearing off the small piece of stringer which rested directly on top of the pile, and so brought down the other parts...