si je le permets. Cf. note on p

1. 35. poutres, 'beams.' The word properly means 'a mare' (from Latin pulletru?n, a derivative oi ptillus), 'a foal,' and then later came to be used for the pièce of wood which supports the joints of a floor, by application of the common metaphor which gives to pièces of wood, which uphold a weight, the names of beasts of burden. Compare chevalet from chroal, p. 2, 1. 3 [Brachet].

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1. 11. brancard, from branc, the masc. form of branche. It means literally a great bough stripped of its leaves : then the word is used of the shafts of a carriage, and of a litter, which was originally formed of crossed sticks [Brachet].