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Carpentry Wood And Lumber Vocab
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1. Wood used for framing having a nominal thickness of 2'
Stickering
Green lumber
Dimension lumber
Cup
2. Lumber defect in wood.
Twist
Sapwood
Fiber-saturation point
Wane
3. Lumber that has not been dried to a suitable moisture content.
Shake
Plain-sawed
Hardwoods
Green lumber
4. A layer just inside the bark of a tree where new cells are formed.
Dimension lumber
Pith
Cambium layer
Plain-sawed
5. Lumber dried by placing it in huge ovens called kilns.
Twist
Sawyer
No. 1 common
Kiln-dried
6. The best grade of hardwood lumber.
Dimension lumber
First and seconds
Fiber-saturation point
Seasoned lumber
7. A method of sawing lumber parallel to the medullary rays to produce edge-grain lumber.
Moisture meter
Dimension lumber
Quarter-sawed
Sawyer
8. Lumber that has been seasoned by drying in the air.
Lignin
Plain-sawed
Air-dried
Grade
9. Numbers and letters used to rank wood according to quality.
Lumber grades
Stickering
Quarter-sawed
Twist
10. The portion of wood that contains the first seven to fifteen growth rings of a log. They are located in the pith.
Quarter-sawed
Fiber-saturation point
Kiln-dried
Juvenile wood
11. Trees that shed leaves each year.
Deciduous
Timber
Lumber grades
Board foot
12. Numbers and letters used to rank wood according to quality.
Softwood
Dimension lumber
Sawyer
Lumber grades
13. Trees that shed leaves each year.
Seasoned lumber
Deciduous
Juvenile wood
Coniferous
14. Machine that makes moldings or a thin strip placed between layers of lumber to create an air space for drying.
Timber
Stickering
Heartwood
Board
15. A method of sawing lumber parallel to the medullary rays to produce edge-grain lumber.
Board
Juvenile wood
Pith
Quarter-sawed
16. The small - soft core at the center of a tree.
Sapwood
Lignin
Pith
Warp
17. The small - soft core at the center of a tree.
Timber
Seasoned lumber
Stickering
Pith
18. A defect in lumber caused by cutting through a branch of limb embedded in the log.
Sawyer
Timber
Knots
Pith
19. Lumber that has been dried to a suitable moisture content.
Bow
Moisture meter
Seasoned lumber
Hardwoods
20. The outer part of a tree just beneath the bark containing active cells.
Sapwood
Kiln-dried
Board foot
Seasoned lumber
21. The point at which the moisture content of wood is equal to the moisture content of the surrounding air.
Equilibrium moisture content
Bow
Wane
Cup
22. Bands of cells radiating from the cambium layer to the pith of a tree to transport nourishment toward the center.
Warp
Pith
Medullary ray
Seasoned lumber
23. Large pieces of lumber over 5' in thickness and width.
Board foot
No. 1 common
Fiber-saturation point
Timber
24. The wood in the inner part of a tree - usually darker and containing inactive cells.
Pith
Heartwood
Dimension lumber
Grade
25. Lumber usually 8' or more in width and less than 2' thick.
No. 1 common
Medullary ray
Lumber grades
Board
26. Wood that is cut from the log to form boards - planks - and timbers.
Shake
Lumber
Quarter-sawed
Moisture meter
27. A type of warp in which the side of lumber is curved from end to end.
Green lumber
Bow
Coniferous
Grade
28. A method of sawing lumber that produces flat grain.
Knots
Seasoned lumber
Cup
Plain-sawed
29. Any deviation from straightness in a piece of lumber.
Stickering
Deciduous
Hardwoods
Warp
30. A defect in lumber caused by a separation of the annular ring; also - a type of wood shingle.
Lumber grades
Bow
Shake
Pitch pocket
31. Bark - or lack of wood - on the edge of lumber.
Board foot
Wane
Medullary ray
First and seconds
32. A defect in lumber caused by cutting through a branch of limb embedded in the log.
Lignin
Green lumber
Deciduous
Knots
33. The amount of moisture in wood expressed as a percentage of the dry weight.
Lumber
Moisture content
Quarter-sawed
Stickering
34. A person whose job is to cut logs into lumber.
Timber
Bow
Cambium layer
Sawyer
35. Cone bearing tree; also known as evergreen tree.
Lignin
Sawyer
Coniferous
Pitch pocket
36. The wood of broad-leaved dictyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers).
Juvenile wood
Twist
Softwood
Hardwoods
37. The level of the ground: also identifies the quality of the lumber.
Annular rings
Seasoned lumber
Plain-sawed
Grade
38. The level of the ground: also identifies the quality of the lumber.
Shake
Grade
Lumber
Coniferous
39. Machine that makes moldings or a thin strip placed between layers of lumber to create an air space for drying.
Air-dried
Stickering
Annular rings
Wane
40. Lumber usually 8' or more in width and less than 2' thick.
Board
Sapwood
Lumber grades
Wane
41. A type of warp in which the edge of a lumber is not straight.
Moisture meter
Crook
Grade
No. 1 common
42. The wood in the inner part of a tree - usually darker and containing inactive cells.
Hardwoods
Cambium layer
Heartwood
Deciduous
43. Cone bearing tree; also known as evergreen tree.
Seasoned lumber
Cambium layer
Sawyer
Coniferous
44. The rings seen when viewing a cross-section of a tree trunk; each ring constitutes one year of tree growth.
Twist
Annular rings
Sapwood
Warp
45. Wood used for framing having a nominal thickness of 2'
Dimension lumber
Moisture meter
First and seconds
Stickering
46. The outer part of a tree just beneath the bark containing active cells.
Fiber-saturation point
Lumber grades
Cup
Sapwood
47. A method of sawing lumber that produces flat grain.
Lignin
Plain-sawed
Lignin
First and seconds
48. A device used to determine the moisture content of wood.
Softwood
Moisture meter
Board foot
Board
49. The natural glue in wood that holds together the wood cells and fibers.
Plain-sawed
Sawyer
First and seconds
Lignin
50. Bark - or lack of wood - on the edge of lumber.
Annular rings
First and seconds
Wane
Sawyer