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Lumber
Timber after it has been sawed and split into planks or other smaller components that can be used as building material.
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Pith
Building materials; Lumber
The small soft core occurring in the centre of a tree trunk, branch, twig, or log.
Wood
Building materials; Lumber
The hard compact fibrous substance of which trees and shrubs are largely composed.
Stack
Building materials; Lumber
A number of racks positioned one above the other and separated by bearers or gluts.
Spring
Building materials; Lumber
A longitudinal curvature of the edge of a piece of lumber, not affecting the face.
Transverse
Building materials; Lumber
Across. A transverse section is a section across the length of a building or room.
Conditioning treatment
Building materials; Lumber
A treatment applied to equilibrate the moisture content of wood to a particular value.
Parquetry flooring
Building materials; Lumber
Flooring of small matching pieces of lumber laid on a substrate in a geometric patterns.
