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Carpentry Wood And Lumber Vocab

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






2. Trees that shed leaves each year.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. Cone bearing tree; also known as evergreen tree.






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






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






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






18. A defect in lumber caused by a separation of the annular ring; also - a type of wood shingle.






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. Lumber defect in wood.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. Lumber defect in wood.






34. Numbers and letters used to rank wood according to quality.






35. Bands of cells radiating from the cambium layer to the pith of a tree to transport nourishment toward the center.






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






37. Cone bearing tree; also known as evergreen tree.






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






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






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






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






42. A defect in lumber caused by a separation of the annular ring; also - a type of wood shingle.






43. Lumber that has been seasoned by drying in the air.






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






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






46. Lumber that has been seasoned by drying in the air.






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






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






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






50. The portion of wood that contains the first seven to fifteen growth rings of a log. They are located in the pith.







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