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Slue :: Slue (v. t.) To turn about a fixed point, usually the center or axis, as a spar or piece of timber; to turn; -- used also of any heavy body..

Housing :: Housing (n.) The space taken out of one solid, to admit the insertion of part of another, as the end of one timber in the side of another..

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

Wany :: Wany (a.) Waning or diminished in some parts; not of uniform size throughout; -- said especially of sawed boards or timber when tapering or uneven, from being cut too near the outside of the log..

Gribble :: Gribble (n.) A small marine isopod crustacean (Limnoria lignorum or L. terebrans), which burrows into and rapidly destroys submerged timber, such as the piles of wharves, both in Europe and America..

Carling :: Carling (n.) A short timber running lengthwise of a ship, from one transverse desk beam to another; also, one of the cross timbers that strengthen a hath; -- usually in pl..

Timbering :: Timbering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Timbe.

Scantling :: Scantling (v. t.) A piece of timber sawed or cut of a small size, as for studs, rails, etc..

Hummock :: Hummock (n.) Timbered land. See Hammock.

Ash :: Ash (n.) A genus of trees of the Olive family, having opposite pinnate leaves, many of the species furnishing valuable timber, as the European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and the white ash (F. Americana)..

Floating :: Floating (a.) Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air..

Table :: Table (v. t.) To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf..

Salt :: Salt (v. t.) To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber..

Gripe :: Gripe (n.) The piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.

Clout :: Clout (n.) To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole..

Heel :: Heel (n.) The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter. In the United States, specif., the obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping..

Hitch :: Hitch (n.) A knot or noose in a rope which can be readily undone; -- intended for a temporary fastening; as, a half hitch; a clove hitch; a timber hitch, etc..

Barren :: Barren (n.) Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees, but not timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile..

Futtock :: Futtock (n.) One of the crooked timbers which are scarfed together to form the lower part of the compound rib of a vessel; one of the crooked transverse timbers passing across and over the keel.

Cathead :: Cathead (n.) A projecting piece of timber or iron near the bow of vessel, to which the anchor is hoisted and secured..

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