Pendant：In an open timber roof: a supporting post attached to the hammerbeam or the principal rafter; a pendant-post; a spandrel formed by the side-post, the curved brace, and the tie beam or the hammer beam. In stonework: a shaft supporting the ribs of a vault or arch or the pendant-post of an open timber roof, resting on a corbel or ending in a boss.---Oxford English Dictionary  @en