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