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Definition of Timberheads
1. timberhead [n] - See also: timberhead
Lexicographical Neighbors of Timberheads
Literary usage of Timberheads
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker. by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew, Timothy Flint, Washington Irving (1836)
"Marlinspike and timberheads then slued the lid off the pot, and the bo'son jumped
out, ... Who's in this pot V asked timberheads. ' Ah, my good, kind friend ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1836)
"I ' What/ said timberheads, ' has the devil toggled you at last, Jacky? Well, my
lad, I am not surprised, 'cause I always know'd you'd bring up here — but I ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1836)
"'Ah, my good kind friend timberheads,do pray let me out of this! ... You was a
tyrant on the 1 O, Mister timberheads—recollect, Sir, that I only did my duty ..."
4. Report of the Mississippi River Commission by Mississippi River Commission, United States (1897)
"Entire new set of timberheads ; 25 new rake plank ; sidee and ... Entire new
deck ; new timberheads ; 6 new rake plank ; deck, sides, ami rakes calked; ..."
5. A System of Mechanical Philosophy by John Robison, James Watt (1822)
"... and the lighter would be held in the same manner if the rope were made fast
at C amidship, without any dependence on the timberheads at D; ..."
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