The big soild swept braces below the Ties / Bottom Chords / ceiling (seen from the Nave)

Sorry about the Techno-jargon, it's both part of who I am, and often the best way to be descriptive - We had a wiki / glossary, you could have referred to but is has been temporarily (hopefully, as I like a number of others, have some time in it) taken off line.


Scantling
[skant-ling]
–noun
1.a timber of relatively slight width and thickness, as a stud or rafter in a house frame.
2.such timbers collectively.
3.the width and thickness of a timber.
4.the dimensions of a building stone.
5.nautical .
a.a dressed timber or rolled metal member used as a framing member in a vessel.
b.the dimension, in cross section, of a framing member.
6.a small quantity or amount.
Origin:
1520–30; scant + -ling1 ; r. ME scantilon < OF escantillon gauge

Definition 3 as I used it upthread, though it's commonly used in timber-speak as either 1,3 or 6

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