v. Building. Also 5 bem(e)fell. [f. BEAM sb.1 + FILL v.] (See quots.) Hence Beamfilling vbl. sb.
c. 1400. in Wülcker, Voc., /732. Hec sugrunda, a bemfellyng.
1469. Mann. & Househ. Exp. (1841), 395. My mastyr made a couenaunt wyth Saunsam the tylere, that he schalle pergete, and whighte, and bemefelle all the new byldynge.
1734. Builders’ Dict., Beam filling in building is plaisterer’s work, and is the filling up the vacant space between the raison and the roof.
1842. Gwilt, Archit., Beam-filling is the masonry brought up from the level of the under to the upper sides of the beams. It is also used to denote the filling up of the space from the top of the wall-plate between the rafters to the under side of the slating, board, or other covering.
