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Stockade :: Stockade (v. t.) A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other (and usually with loopholes) to form a barrier, or defensive fortification..

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

Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) One of the pieces of timber, stone, or iron, on or near the level of the ground, for the support of some superstructure, to steady framework, to keep in place the rails of a railway, etc.; a stringpiece..

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

Tree :: Tree (n.) Wood; timber.

Worm-eaten :: Worm-eaten (a.) Eaten, or eaten into, by a worm or by worms; as, worm-eaten timber..

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..

Sound :: Sound (superl.) Whole; unbroken; unharmed; free from flaw, defect, or decay; perfect of the kind; as, sound timber; sound fruit; a sound tooth; a sound ship..

Lepas :: Lepas (n.) Any one of various species of Lepas, a genus of pedunculated barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, Gulf weed, etc.; -- called also goose barnacle. See Barnacle..

Stanchion :: Stanchion (n.) A prop or support; a piece of timber in the form of a stake or post, used for a support or stay..

Stringhalt :: Stringer (n.) A long horizontal timber to connect uprights in a frame, or to support a floor or the like..

Oar :: Oar (n) An implement for impelling a boat, being a slender piece of timber, usually ash or spruce, with a grip or handle at one end and a broad blade at the other. The part which rests in the rowlock is called the loom..

Timbre :: Timbre (n.) See 1st Timber.

Carpentry :: Carpentry (n.) An assemblage of pieces of timber connected by being framed together, as the pieces of a roof, floor, etc.; work done by a carpenter..

Log :: Log (v. i.) To engage in the business of cutting or transporting logs for timber; to get out logs.

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

Bolt :: Bolt (v. t.) To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain..

Spur :: Spur (n.) A piece of timber fixed on the bilge ways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side..

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

Wedge :: Wedge (v. t.) To fasten with a wedge, or with wedges; as, to wedge a scythe on the snath; to wedge a rail or a piece of timber in its place..

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