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VerbarKauri

tall coniferous tree of New Zealand Agathis australis or Dammara australis having white straight grained wood furnishing valuable timber and also yielding one kind of dammar resin

Joist

A piece of timber laid horizontally or nearly so to which the planks of the floor or the laths or furring strips

Jacal

and the southwestern United States a kind of plastered house or hut usually made by planting poles or timber in the ground filling in between them with screen work or wickerwork and daubing one or both sides

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dockyard

A yard or storage place for all sorts of naval stores and timber for shipbuilding

Hogback

An upward curve or very obtuse angle in the upper surface of any member as of a timber laid horizontally the opposite of camber

Harrow

An implement of agriculture usually formed of pieces of timber or metal crossing each other and set with iron or wooden teeth It is drawn over plowed land

Half timbered

Constructed of a timber frame having the spaces filled in with masonry said of buildings

Hackmatack

The American larch Larix Americana a coniferous tree with slender deciduous leaves also its heavy close grained timber Called also tamarack

huamachil

dulce having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum

Gribble

A small marine isopod crustacean Limnoria lignorum or Limnoria terebrans which burrows into and rapidly destroys submerged timber such as the piles of wharves both in Europe and America

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