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) A variable scale of wages or of prices. (c) A slide rule. -- Sliding ways (Naut.), the timber guides used in launching a vessel.

A narrow piece of timber which holds together large pieces; a slat; as, the sloats of a cart.

To turn about a fixed point, usually the center or axis, as a spar or piece of timber; to turn; -- used also of any heavy body.

To bevel the end of a timber to fit against an inclined surface.

An upward bend in a piece of timber; the sheer of a vessel.

Filled with water; soft with moisture; sodden; soaked; wet; as, soggy land or timber.

ole; unbroken; unharmed; free from flaw, defect, or decay; perfect of the kind; as, sound timber; sound fruit; a sound tooth; a sound ship.

The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith.

A strengthening cross timber.

Liable to break or split; brittle; as, spalt timber. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A pair of grappling dogs for hoisting logs and timber.

ish elm (Bot.), a large West Indian tree (Cordia Gerascanthus) furnishing hard and useful timber. -- Spanish feretto, a rich reddish brown pigment obtained by calcining copper and sulphur together in closed crucibles. -- Spanish flag (Zoöl.), the California rockfish (Sebastichthys rubrivinctus). It is conspicuously c…

A general term any round piece of timber used as a mast, yard, boom, or gaff.

To unite, as spars, timbers, rails, etc., by lapping the two ends together, or by applying a piece which laps upon the two ends, and then binding, or in any way making fast.

divide in the direction of the grain layers; to rive; to cleave; as, to split a piece of timber or a board; to split a gem; to split a sheepskin. Cold winter split the rocks in twain. Dryden.

Timber sawn into lengths and then split.

I shall close these eyes but once, May I live spotted for my perjury. Beau. & Fl. To spot timber, to cut or chip it, in preparation for hewing.

A billet of wood; a piece of timber used as a prop.

To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped; as, a piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in seasoning.

The wood or timber of the spruce tree.