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Definition of Timbers
1. timber [v] - See also: timber
Lexicographical Neighbors of Timbers
Literary usage of Timbers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"The feeding cylinder I, mounted upon the movable timbers HH, substantially as
... The specification speaks of the timbers HH as being the foundation timbers ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
""Q. It was the miner's duty at this place [ie, defendant's mine] to set the timbers?
"A. Yes; they set the timbers, the straight timbers. ..."
3. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ...by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"In forming the timbers, one mould ... and fo make only one line, which ie called
34 UK joint of the timbers. a ... timbers in the mid- ihip frame. ..."
4. The Indian Forester (1895)
"Colonial timbers for Wine-Casks. I draw attention, in a tentative wy, to the
subject of indigenous timbers tor cask (and particularly wine-cask) making. ..."
5. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley (1862)
"As this is one of the most important timbers, having to support the rudder and
... Within the stem post are secured to it other timbers of equal breadth and ..."
6. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"Sized and Surfaced timbers.—The fact must always be borne in mind by the designer
of timber beams that a variation from the nominal size of timbers is ..."
7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"They are jointed and bolted together, and, by means of long bolts they help to
bind the floor-timbers to the keel. In iron vessels a combination oí steel or ..."
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