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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..

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

Post :: Post (n.) A piece of timber, metal, or other solid substance, fixed, or to be fixed, firmly in an upright position, especially when intended as a stay or support to something else; a pillar; as, a hitching post; a fence post; the posts of a house..

Score :: Score (v. t.) To mark with lines, scratches, or notches; to cut notches or furrows in; to notch; to scratch; to furrow; as, to score timber for hewing; to score the back with a lash..

Puncheon :: Puncheon (n.) A short, upright piece of timber in framing; a short post; an intermediate stud..

Bridle Iron :: Bridle iron () A strong flat bar of iron, so bent as to support, as in a stirrup, one end of a floor timber, etc., where no sufficient bearing can be had; -- called also stirrup and hanger..

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

Ribbing :: Ribbing (n.) An assemblage or arrangement of ribs, as the timberwork for the support of an arch or coved ceiling, the veins in the leaves of some plants, ridges in the fabric of cloth, or the like..

Crosspiece :: Crosspiece (n.) A bar or timber connecting two knightheads or two bitts.

Sizable :: Sizable (a.) Being of reasonable or suitable size; as, sizable timber; sizable bulk..

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

Cut :: Cut (n.) A portion severed or cut off; a division; as, a cut of beef; a cut of timber..

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

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..

Lumber :: Lumber (v. i.) To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market..

Sylviculturist :: Sylviculture (n.) The cultivation of forest trees for timber or other purposes; forestry; arboriculture.

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

Cog :: Cog (n.) A kind of tenon on the end of a joist, received into a notch in a bearing timber, and resting flush with its upper surface..

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

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.

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