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Carpentry Wood And Lumber Vocab

Subjects : industries, carpentry
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1. A lower grade of hardwood lumber.






2. Lumber defect in wood.






3. An opening in lumber between annular rings containing pitch in either liquid or solid form.






4. The best grade of hardwood lumber.






5. A person whose job is to cut logs into lumber.






6. The small - soft core at the center of a tree.






7. A layer just inside the bark of a tree where new cells are formed.






8. A method of sawing lumber parallel to the medullary rays to produce edge-grain lumber.






9. A method of sawing lumber that produces flat grain.






10. The moisture content of wood when the cell cavities are empty but the cell walls are still saturated.






11. The wood of broad-leaved dictyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers).






12. Wood that is cut from the log to form boards - planks - and timbers.






13. Lumber defect in wood.






14. Bark - or lack of wood - on the edge of lumber.






15. Lumber that has been dried to a suitable moisture content.






16. The amount of moisture in wood expressed as a percentage of the dry weight.






17. Wood from coniferous (cone-bearing) trees.






18. A person whose job is to cut logs into lumber.






19. The natural glue in wood that holds together the wood cells and fibers.






20. A type of warp in which the side of lumber is curved from end to end.






21. Lumber that has not been dried to a suitable moisture content.






22. Lumber usually 8' or more in width and less than 2' thick.






23. The wood in the inner part of a tree - usually darker and containing inactive cells.






24. A type of warp in which the edge of a lumber is not straight.






25. Lumber dried by placing it in huge ovens called kilns.






26. Any deviation from straightness in a piece of lumber.






27. A volume of wood that measures 1' square and 1' thick or any equivalent lumber volume.






28. The amount of moisture in wood expressed as a percentage of the dry weight.






29. Wood used for framing having a nominal thickness of 2'






30. A method of sawing lumber that produces flat grain.






31. The level of the ground: also identifies the quality of the lumber.






32. The moisture content of wood when the cell cavities are empty but the cell walls are still saturated.






33. Trees that shed leaves each year.






34. Lumber dried by placing it in huge ovens called kilns.






35. The rings seen when viewing a cross-section of a tree trunk; each ring constitutes one year of tree growth.






36. Lumber usually 8' or more in width and less than 2' thick.






37. A method of sawing lumber parallel to the medullary rays to produce edge-grain lumber.






38. A device used to determine the moisture content of wood.






39. The best grade of hardwood lumber.






40. A defect in lumber caused by cutting through a branch of limb embedded in the log.






41. The point at which the moisture content of wood is equal to the moisture content of the surrounding air.






42. The small - soft core at the center of a tree.






43. A type of warp in which the side of a board is curved from edge to edge.






44. Lumber that has not been dried to a suitable moisture content.






45. Lumber that has been dried to a suitable moisture content.






46. The outer part of a tree just beneath the bark containing active cells.






47. The point at which the moisture content of wood is equal to the moisture content of the surrounding air.






48. A defect in lumber caused by cutting through a branch of limb embedded in the log.






49. The wood of broad-leaved dictyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers).






50. The level of the ground: also identifies the quality of the lumber.