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Templet :: Templet (n.) A short piece of timber, iron, or stone, placed in a wall under a girder or other beam, to distribute the weight or pressure..

Timber :: Timber (n.) A rib, or a curving piece of wood, branching outward from the keel and bending upward in a vertical direction. One timber is composed of several pieces united..

Rail :: Rail (n.) A bar of timber or metal, usually horizontal or nearly so, extending from one post or support to another, as in fences, balustrades, staircases, etc..

Partner :: Partner (n.) A framework of heavy timber surrounding an opening in a deck, to strengthen it for the support of a mast, pump, capstan, or the like..

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

Timbering :: Timbering (n.) The act of furnishing with timber; also, timbers, collectively; timberwork; timber..

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..

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

Xylotrya :: Xylotrya (n.) A genus of marine bivalves closely allied to Teredo, and equally destructive to timber. One species (Xylotrya fimbriata) is very common on the Atlantic coast of the United States..

Sternsman :: Sternpost (n.) A straight piece of timber, or an iron bar or beam, erected on the extremity of the keel to support the rudder, and receive the ends of the planks or plates of the vessel..

Chipping :: Chipping (n.) The act or process of cutting or breaking off small pieces, as in dressing iron with a chisel, or reducing a timber or block of stone to shape..

Tiller :: Tiller (n.) A young timber tree.

Beam :: Beam (n.) Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use..

Timber :: Timber (v. i.) To make a nest.

Collar :: Collar (n.) A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft..

Yard :: Yard (v. i.) A long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc..

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

Breech :: Breech (n.) The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat..

Side :: Side (v. t.) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.

Notching :: Notching (n.) A method of joining timbers, scantling, etc., by notching them, as at the ends, and overlapping or interlocking the notched portions..

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