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