A rafter or roofbeam, especially a trimmed and peeled tree trunk whose end projects from an outside adobe wall.
[American Spanish, from Spanish, perhaps from Latin bīga, team of horses, cart (from the long pole between the two horses).]
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vi·ga (vē'gə) ![]() |
A rafter or roofbeam, especially a trimmed and peeled tree trunk whose end projects from an outside adobe wall.
[American Spanish, from Spanish, perhaps from Latin bīga, team of horses, cart (from the long pole between the two horses).]
| Architecture: viga |
In Spanish Colonial architecture and its derivatives, a log that has been stripped of its bark and unhewn; used as one of a number of roof beams spanning the width of a building between opposite adobe walls; usually evenly
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