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