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Axe
noun · 78% connection
A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, e…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: occupation, timber, planks, boards, wood.
Block
noun · 78% connection
To secure or support by means of blocks; to secure, as two boards at their angles of intersection, by pieces of wood glued to each.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: occupation, timber, planks, boards, wood.
Boarding
noun · 78% connection
The act of covering with boards; also, boards, collectively; or a covering made of boards.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: occupation, timber, planks, boards, wood.
Booth
noun · 78% connection
A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: occupation, timber, planks, boards, wood.
Brickkiln
noun · 78% connection
A kiln, or furnace, in which bricks are baked or burnt; or a pile of green bricks, laid loose, with arches underneath to receive the w…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: occupation, timber, planks, boards, wood.
Broadleaf
noun · 78% connection
A tree (Terminalia latifolia) of Jamaica, the wood of which is used for boards, scantling, shingles, etc; -- sometimes called the almo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: occupation, timber, planks, boards, wood.
Carpentering
noun · 78% connection
The occupation or work of a carpenter; the act of working in timber; carpentry.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: occupation, timber, planks, boards, wood.
Charcoal
verb · 78% connection
Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: occupation, timber, planks, boards, wood.
Coak
noun · 78% connection
A kind of tenon connecting the face of a scarfed timber with the face of another timber, or a dowel or pin of hard wood or iron unitin…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: occupation, timber, planks, boards, wood.
Coppice
noun · 78% connection
A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See Copse.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: occupation, timber, planks, boards, wood.
Filling
noun · 78% connection
That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: occupation, timber, planks, boards, wood.
Firewood
noun · 78% connection
Wood for fuel.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: occupation, timber, planks, boards, wood.
Float
verb · 78% connection
A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: occupation, timber, planks, boards, wood.
Housebote
noun · 78% connection
Wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel. This latter is often called firebote. See Bote.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: occupation, timber, planks, boards, wood.
Joist
noun · 78% connection
A piece of timber laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling, are…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: occupation, timber, planks, boards, wood.
Lumber
noun · 78% connection
Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timb…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: occupation, timber, planks, boards, wood.
Paddlewood
noun · 78% connection
The light elastic wood of the Aspidosperma excelsum, a tree of Guiana having a fluted trunk readily split into planks.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: occupation, timber, planks, boards, wood.
Peg
noun · 78% connection
A small, pointed piece of wood, used in fastening boards together, in attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc.; as, a shoe peg.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: occupation, timber, planks, boards, wood.
