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Spill :: Spill (n.) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.

Stock :: Stock (n.) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests while building.

Crane :: Crane (n.) A machine for raising and lowering heavy weights, and, while holding them suspended, transporting them through a limited lateral distance. In one form it consists of a projecting arm or jib of timber or iron, a rotating post or base, and the necessary tackle, windlass, etc.; -- so called from a fancied similarity between its arm and the neck of a crane See Illust. of Derrick..

Crutch :: Crutch (n.) A knee, or piece of knee timber.

Forehook :: Forehook (n.) A piece of timber placed across the stem, to unite the bows and strengthen the fore part of the ship; a breast hook..

Weak :: Weak (v. i.) Not able to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain; as, a weak timber; a weak rope..

Oak :: Oak (n.) The strong wood or timber of the oak.

Pitman :: Pitman (n.) One who works in a pit, as in mining, in sawing timber, etc..

Gunwale :: Gunwale (n.) The upper edge of a vessel's or boat's side; the uppermost wale of a ship (not including the bulwarks); or that piece of timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, being the uppermost bend, which finishes the upper works of the hull..

Culls :: Culls (v. t.) Refuse timber, from which the best part has been culled out..

Blockhouse :: Blockhouse (n.) An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story, thus enabling the defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; -- formerly much used in America and Germany..

Throat :: Throat (n.) The inside of a timber knee.

Spalt :: Spalt (a.) To split off; to cleave off, as chips from a piece of timber, with an ax..

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..

Way :: Way (n.) The timbers on which a ship is launched.

Spalt :: Spalt (a.) Liable to break or split; brittle; as, spalt timber..

Sawmill :: Sawmill (n.) A mill for sawing, especially one for sawing timber or lumber..

Hogback :: Hogback (n.) An upward curve or very obtuse angle in the upper surface of any member, as of a timber laid horizontally; -- the opposite of camber..

Standard :: Standard (n.) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally..

Dagger :: Dagger (n.) A timber placed diagonally in a ship's frame.

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