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of cutting or breaking off small pieces, as in dressing iron with a chisel, or reducing a timber or block of stone to shape.

with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usually driven by a mallet or hammer. Cold chisel. See under Cold, a.

Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects; as, clean land; clean timber.

flat head; -- used for fastening clouts to axletrees, plowshares, etc., also for studding timber, and for various purposes.

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 uniting timbers. [Also spelt coag.]

To secure from leaking, as a chaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering. Raymond.

A kind of tenon on the end of a joist, received into a notch in a bearing timber, and resting flush with its upper surface.

A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft. Raymond. Collar beam (Arch.), a horizontal piece of timber connecting and tying together two opposite rafters; -- also, called simply collar. -- Collar of brawn, the quantity of brawn bound up in one parcel. [Eng.] Johnson. -- Collar day, a day of great…

ow blade, which will cut in a curve; -- called also fret saw and keyhole saw. -- Compass timber (Shipbuilding), curved or crooked timber. -- Compass window (Arch.), a circular bay window or oriel window. It has two or more magnetic needles permanently attached to a card, which moves freely upon a pivot, and is read w…

Curved; bent; as, compassing timbers.

ament; to murmur; to find fault; -- commonly used with of. Also, to creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel. O lose of sight, of three I most complain! Milton.

A piece of timber having a groove in which something glides.

An adjustable gage, with double points for transferring measurements from one timber to another, as the breadth of a mortise to the place where the tenon is to be made. Knight.

Any of a series of laths nailed to the timbers to raise the sheet lathing above their surface to afford a key for plastering.

out a perceptible opening; a chink or fissure; a narrow breach; a crevice; as, a crack in timber, or in a wall, or in glass.

A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.

A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron.

through a limited lateral distance. In one form it consists of a projecting arm or jib of timber or iron, a rotating post or base, and the necessary tackle, windlass, etc.; -- so called from a fancied similarity between its arm and the neck of a crane See Illust. Of Derrick.

To saturate or impregnate with creosote, as timber, for the prevention of decay.

A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft.