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A small craft used in the West India Islands to take off sugars rum etc to the merchantmen also a vessel for transporting lumber cotton etc coastwise as a lumber drogher...
fungible
fungible [New Latin fungibilis, from Latin fungi to perform] : being something (as money or a commodity) one part or quantity of which can be substituted for another of equal value in paying a debt or settling an account [oil, wheat, and lumber are commodities] n : something that is fungible ...
Timber
Timber, has an enlarged or restricted sense, according to the connection in which it is employed, and may refer to standing trees or wood suitable for the manufacture of lumber to be used for building and allied purposes, Corpus Juris Secundum, Vol. 54, p. 1.Timber, may be used in a restricted as well as enlarged sense. In the restricted sense it means specified trees like oak, ash, elm, teace, blackwood, ebony etc. and in the enlarged sense it means woods suitable for building, furniture, and carpentry etc., and includes standing trees. Its true meaning has to be determined from the context in which it is employed, Divisional Forest Officer v. Tata Finlay Ltd., AIR 2001 SC 2672. [See also Kerala Grants and Leases (Modification of Rights) Act, 1980, s. 4]Means at common law oak, ash and elm are timber if over twenty years old, but not so old as to have unusable wood in them. Other trees may be timber by the custom of the country. Thus beech is timber by the custom of Buckinghamshire an...
Deposit
Deposit, money paid to a person as an earnest or security for the performance of some contract, especially a contract for the sale of real estate. Also a naked bailment of goods to be kept for the bailor without recompense, and to be returned when the bailor shall require it. The appellation and the definition are both derived from the civil law. Depositum est quod custodiendum alicui datum est. It is, in the civil law, divisible into two kinds: (1) necessary, made upon some sudden emergency, and from some pressing necessity; as, for instance, in case of a fire, a shipwreck, or other overwhelming calamity, when property is confided to any person whom the depositor may meet without proper opportunity for reflection or choice, and thence it is called miserabile depositum; (2) voluntary, which arises from the mere consent and agreement of the parties. the Common Law has made no such division. There is another class of deposits, called involuntary, which may be without the assent or even k...
Sluiceway
An artificial channel into which water is let by a sluice specifically a trough constructed over the bed of a stream so that logs lumber or rubbish can be floated down to some convenient place of delivery...
Sawmill
A mill for sawing especially one for sawing timber or lumber...
Resaw
To saw again specifically to saw a balk or a timber which has already been squared into dimension lumber as joists boards etc...
Quarter saw
To saw a log into quarters specif to saw into quarters and then into boards as by cutting alternately from each face of a quarter to secure lumber that will warp relatively little or show the grain advantageously...
opepe
A large African forest tree Nauclea diderrichii yielding a strong hard yellow to golden brown lumber sometimes placed in genus Sarcocephalus and then called Sarcocephalus diderrichii...
Lumbosacral
Of or pertaining to the loins and sacrum as the lumbosacral nerve a branch of one of the lumber nerves which passes over the sacrum...
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