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Scantling

Scantling is a measurement of prescribed size, dimensions, or cross sectional areas.

Timber

Trees or wooded land considered as a source of wood.

Scantling

A very small amount; a modicum.

Timber

Wood used as a building material; lumber.

Scantling

A small timber used in construction.
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Timber

A dressed piece of wood, especially a beam in a structure.

Scantling

The dimensions of a building material, especially the width and thickness of a timber.

Timber

(Nautical) A rib in a ship's frame.

Scantling

Often scantings(Nautical) The dimensions of the structural parts of a vessel.

Timber

A person considered to have qualities suited for a particular activity
That trainee is executive timber.
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Scantling

The set size or dimension of a piece of timber, stone etc., or materials used to build ships or aircraft.

Timber

To support or frame with timbers
Timber a mine shaft.

Scantling

(archaic) A small portion, a scant amount.

Timber

Used by one cutting down a tree to warn those around that the tree is about to fall.

Scantling

A small, upright beam of timber used in construction, especially less than five inches square.

Timber

(uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
Collect timber
Cut down timber

Scantling

(uncountable) Timber in the form of small beams and pieces.

Timber

Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.

Scantling

(obsolete) A rough draught; a crude sketch or outline.

Timber

(countable) A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy support for something such as a roof.
The timbers of a ship

Scantling

(obsolete) A frame for casks to lie upon; a trestle.

Timber

Material for any structure.

Scantling

Not plentiful; small; scanty.

Timber

The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.

Scantling

Not plentiful; small; scanty.

Timber

(archaic) A certain quantity of fur skins (as of martens, ermines, sables, etc.) packed between boards; in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty. Also timmer, timbre.

Scantling

A fragment; a bit; a little piece.
Such as exceed not this scantling; - to be solace to the sovereign and harmless to the people.
A pretty scantling of his knowledge may taken by his deferring to be baptized so many years.

Timber

Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.

Scantling

A small quantity; a little bit; not much.
Reducing them to narrow scantlings.

Timber

(transitive) To fit with timbers.
Timbering a roof

Scantling

A piece of timber sawed or cut of a small size, as for studs, rails, etc.

Timber

To construct, frame, build.

Scantling

The dimensions of a piece of timber with regard to its breadth and thickness; hence, the measure or dimensions of anything.

Timber

To light or land on a tree.

Scantling

A rough draught; a rude sketch or outline.

Timber

(obsolete) To make a nest.

Scantling

A frame for casks to lie upon; a trestle.

Timber

(transitive) To surmount as a timber does.

Scantling

An upright in house framing

Timber

A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty; - called also timmer.

Timber

The crest on a coat of arms.

Timber

That sort of wood which is proper for buildings or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships, and the like; - usually said of felled trees, but sometimes of those standing. Cf. Lumber, 3.
And ta'en my fiddle to the gate, . . . And fiddled in the timber!

Timber

The body, stem, or trunk of a tree.

Timber

Fig.: Material for any structure.
Such dispositions are the very errors of human nature; and yet they are the fittest timber to make politics of.

Timber

A single piece or squared stick of wood intended for building, or already framed; collectively, the larger pieces or sticks of wood, forming the framework of a house, ship, or other structure, in distinction from the covering or boarding.
So they prepared timber . . . to build the house.
Many of the timbers were decayed.

Timber

Woods or forest; wooden land.

Timber

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.

Timber

To surmount as a timber does.

Timber

To furnish with timber; - chiefly used in the past participle.
His bark is stoutly timbered.

Timber

To light on a tree.

Timber

To make a nest.

Timber

The wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material

Timber

A beam made of wood

Timber

A post made of wood

Timber

Land that is covered with trees and shrubs

Timber

(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound);
The timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely
The muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet

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