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| balk |
a heavy beam or timber used in building construction. [1/7 definitions] |
| beam |
a long, heavy timber or piece of metal or stone used as a major support in a building. [1/8 definitions] |
| boom2 |
a floating enclosure, made of chains or ropes, that is used to confine floating objects such as boats and timber. [1/5 definitions] |
| broadax |
an ax with a wide blade and a short handle, used as a weapon or for cutting down timber. |
| buttonwood |
a North American tree related to the sycamore, which bears a nonedible button-shaped fruit and yields hardwood suitable for timber. |
| crosstie |
a transverse timber or rod used to support a longitudinal beam or rail. [1/2 definitions] |
| deodar |
a tall cedar with drooping branches and fragrant, light red, durable wood, used as timber. |
| Douglas fir |
a tall evergreen timber tree of western North America that has hard durable wood and short needles, and bears narrow cones. |
| dress |
to prepare (stone, ore, timber, skins, or the like) by a special process. [1/11 definitions] |
| dry rot |
a fungus decay of seasoned timber that causes it to become brittle and crumble into a dry powder, or the fungus causing this decay. [1/3 definitions] |
| gray wolf |
a large grayish wolf that hunts in packs, formerly common in North America; timber wolf. |
| groundsill |
the lowest horizontal timber in the framework of a building. |
| keelson |
a timber or girder in the hull of a ship, fastened above and parallel to the keel to add structural strength. |
| lobo |
the gray or timber wolf native to the western United States. |
| natural resource |
a source of economic wealth and prosperity that derives from nature, such as fresh water, mineral deposits, timber, wildlife, and park land. |
| pulpwood |
soft timber, such as spruce or pine, that is used to make pulp for paper. |
| ridgepole |
the horizontal beam or timber along the top of a sloping roof. [1/2 definitions] |
| sawyer |
someone who saws timber as an occupation. [1/2 definitions] |
| scarf2 |
the notched end of a piece of timber cut so it may be overlapped and joined with another piece. [2/4 definitions] |
| sill |
a heavy, horizontal timber or beam that serves as a load-bearing support for the wall of a building. [1/2 definitions] |
| souari |
any of several trees of tropical South America that bear large edible nuts and are used as timber. |
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