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Bridgeing :: Bridgeing (n.) The system of bracing used between floor or other timbers to distribute the weight.

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

Carpentry :: Carpentry (n.) The art of cutting, framing, and joining timber, as in the construction of buildings..

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

Mahwa Tree :: Mahwa tree () An East Indian sapotaceous tree (Bassia latifolia, and also B. butyracea), whose timber is used for wagon wheels, and the flowers for food and in preparing an intoxicating drink. It is one of the butter trees. The oil, known as mahwa and yallah, is obtained from the kernels of the fruit..

Curb :: Curb (n.) An assemblage of three or more pieces of timber, or a metal member, forming a frame around an opening, and serving to maintain the integrity of that opening; also, a ring of stone serving a similar purpose, as at the eye of a dome..

Tie :: Tie (v. t.) A beam or rod for holding two parts together; in railways, one of the transverse timbers which support the track and keep it in place..

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

Green :: Green (superl.) Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as, green wood, timber, etc..

Barnacle :: Barnacle (n.) Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc., esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and (b) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and allies). See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle..

Crippling :: Crippling (n.) Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building.

Surmisable :: Surmark (n.) A mark made on the molds of a ship, when building, to show where the angles of the timbers are to be placed..

Timber :: Timber (v. i.) To light on a tree.

Sweep :: Sweep (v. i.) To drive or carry along or off with a broom or a brush, or as if with a broom; to remove by, or as if by, brushing; as, to sweep dirt from a floor; the wind sweeps the snow from the hills; a freshet sweeps away a dam, timber, or rubbish; a pestilence sweeps off multitudes..

Coak :: Coak (v. t.) To unite, as timbers, by means of tenons or dowels in the edges or faces..

Tubbing :: Tubbing (n.) A lining of timber or metal around the shaft of a mine; especially, a series of cast-iron cylinders bolted together, used to enable those who sink a shaft to penetrate quicksand, water, etc., with safety..

Quarter :: Quarter (v. t.) A small upright timber post, used in partitions; -- in the United States more commonly called stud..

Driftpiece :: Driftpiece (n.) An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail..

Bordlode :: Bordlode (n.) The service formerly required of a tenant, to carry timber from the woods to the lord's house..

Plank :: Plank (n.) A broad piece of sawed timber, differing from a board only in being thicker. See Board..

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