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Cherry :: Cherry (n.) The timber of the cherry tree, esp. of the black cherry, used in cabinetmaking, etc..

Sny :: Sny (n.) An upward bend in a piece of timber; the sheer of a vessel.

Carpenter :: Carpenter (n.) An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, ships, etc..

Sissoo :: Sissoo (n.) A leguminous tree (Dalbergia Sissoo) of the northern parts of India; also, the dark brown compact and durable timber obtained from it. It is used in shipbuilding and for gun carriages, railway ties, etc..

Slide :: Slide (v. t.) To cause to slide; to thrust along; as, to slide one piece of timber along another..

Woodland :: Woodland (n.) Land covered with wood or trees; forest; land on which trees are suffered to grow, either for fuel or timber..

Coak :: Coak (n.) A kind of tenon connecting the face of a scarfed timber with the face of another timber, or a dowel or pin of hard wood or iron uniting timbers..

Loggerhead :: Loggerhead (n.) An upright piece of round timber, in a whaleboat, over which a turn of the line is taken when it is running out too fast..

Clean-timbered :: Clean-timbered (a.) Well-proportioned; symmetrical.

Putlog :: Putlog (n.) One of the short pieces of timber on which the planks forming the floor of a scaffold are laid, -- one end resting on the ledger of the scaffold, and the other in a hole left in the wall temporarily for the purpose..

Boring :: Boring (n.) The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks..

Pad :: Pad (n.) A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.

Siding :: Siding (n.) The thickness of a rib or timber, measured, at right angles with its side, across the curved edge; as, a timber having a siding of ten inches..

Lambert Pine :: Lambert pine () The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States..

Timber :: Timber (n.) A single piece or squared stick of wood intended for building, or already framed; collectively, the larger pieces or sticks of wood, forming the framework of a house, ship, or other structure, in distinction from the covering or boarding..

Stulm :: Stull (n.) A framework of timber covered with boards to support rubbish; also, a framework of boards to protect miners from falling stones..

Timber :: Timber (n.) Woods or forest; wooden land.

Touch :: Touch (v.) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but (see Top and but, under Top, n.), or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters..

Timbered :: Timbered (a.) Covered with growth timber; wooden; as, well-timbered land..

Sill :: Sill (n.) The basis or foundation of a thing; especially, a horizontal piece, as a timber, which forms the lower member of a frame, or supports a structure; as, the sills of a house, of a bridge, of a loom, and the like..

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