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






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






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






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






7. Lumber defect in wood.






8. A lower grade of hardwood lumber.






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






10. Machine that makes moldings or a thin strip placed between layers of lumber to create an air space for drying.






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






12. Large pieces of lumber over 5' in thickness and width.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. The best grade of hardwood lumber.






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






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






50. Lumber defect in wood.







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