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Cribbing :: Cribbing (n.) A framework of timbers and plank backing for a shaft lining, to prevent caving, percolation of water, etc..

Summer :: Summer (n.) A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: (a) The lintel of a door or window. (b) The commencement of a cross vault. (c) A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a wall to a girder. Called also summertree..

Timbered :: Timbered (a.) Built; formed; contrived.

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

Fish :: Fish (v. t.) To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to the beam, mast, or timbers, lengthwise on one or both sides. See Fish joint, under Fish, n..

Blockhouse :: Blockhouse (n.) An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story, thus enabling the defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; -- formerly much used in America and Germany..

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..

Cheek :: Cheek (n.) Those pieces of a machine, or of any timber, or stone work, which form corresponding sides, or which are similar and in pair; as, the cheeks (jaws) of a vise; the cheeks of a gun carriage, etc..

Spragged :: Sprag (n.) A billet of wood; a piece of timber used as a prop.

Bird''s-mouth :: Bird's-mouth (n.) An interior angle or notch cut across a piece of timber, for the reception of the edge of another, as that in a rafter to be laid on a plate; -- commonly called crow's-foot in the United States..

Threshold :: Threshold (n.) The plank, stone, or piece of timber, which lies under a door, especially of a dwelling house, church, temple, or the like; the doorsill; hence, entrance; gate; door..

Cant :: Cant (v. t.) To give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football..

Strap :: Strap (n.) A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine..

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

Spandogs :: Spandogs (n. pl.) A pair of grappling dogs for hoisting logs and timber.

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

Batten :: Batten (n .) A strip of sawed stuff, or a scantling; as, (a) pl. (Com. & Arch.) Sawed timbers about 7 by 2 1/2 inches and not less than 6 feet long. Brande & C. (b) (Naut.) A strip of wood used in fastening the edges of a tarpaulin to the deck, also around masts to prevent chafing. (c) A long, thin strip used to strengthen a part, to cover a crack, etc..

Waterway :: Waterway (n.) Heavy plank or timber extending fore and aft the whole length of a vessel's deck at the line of junction with the sides, forming a channel to the scuppers, which are cut through it. In iron vessels the waterway is variously constructed..

Sissoo :: Sissoo (n.) A leguminous tree (Dalbergia Sissoo) of the northern parts of India; also, the dark brown compact and durable timber obtained from it. It is used in shipbuilding and for gun carriages, railway ties, etc..

Hackmatack :: Hackmatack (n.) The American larch (Larix Americana), a coniferous tree with slender deciduous leaves; also, its heavy, close-grained timber. Called also tamarack..

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