The sawn wood is called sawn timber which, depending on the different size and shape, is classified in the types of sawn timber as per table. From Wordnik.com. [1. Purpose and Meaning of Maintenance and Drying of Wood] Reference
Lumber is a general term for all kinds of sawn wood. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
In a week we had cleared a good space, sawn and chopped. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
They make less handsome preserves thus sawn but of finer flavor. From Wordnik.com. [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference
Repeat the above methods of sawing until all the tenons are sawn. From Wordnik.com. [Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used.] Reference
A piece of sawn timber, used as the upright support of a building. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: Conquest of the Savages] Reference
Quarter-sawn oak usually requires half again as long as plain oak. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
First, however, the horns must be sawn from the skull by cutting away. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
It is dogged again, and all sawn up except enough to make a few boards. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
The home was built with rough-sawn pine and covers some 2,300 square feet. From Wordnik.com. [A Non-Conformist Tree House] Reference
The new portion of the leg is afterwards sawn and wrought to the desired shape. From Wordnik.com. [Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used.] Reference
Exports -- commodities: cashews 95\%, fish, peanuts, palm kernels, sawn lumber (1994). From Wordnik.com. [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference
Lastly, his body was sawn with an iron saw, and, by pieces, thrown into a dry cistern. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Exports - commodities: cashew nuts 70\%, shrimp, peanuts, palm kernels, sawn lumber (1996). From Wordnik.com. [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Four or six drawer sides are placed in the vice and the dovetails are sawn at one operation. From Wordnik.com. [Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used.] Reference
This may be used as a templet for laying out the others and they can then be sawn separately. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
The uses of ivory, either in the rough, or sawn and polished, are too manifold to notice here. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
Over two miles of ice, seven inches thick, had to be sawn through to make a canal for the ships. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
This last piece is given a half-turn, bringing the sawn side against the knees, and it is sawn up. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
There stood against the wall, a much-worn wooden chair from which the back had been sawn off close. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference
The board is sawn with a tenon or panel saw, and the piece of timber for the tongue is thus procured. From Wordnik.com. [Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used.] Reference
The board, however, has to be reversed after it is sawn part way thru, in order to finish the saw cut. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
Rather close-grained, conspicuous medullary rays, and when quarter-sawn and well smoothed is very beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Or a long strip may be planed to thickness and width and then be sawn up and finished to the proper lengths. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
Then, resting on a scaffolding, it was sawn from the rock, cautiously lowered, and sent off to its new home. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
Afterwards, aside from a crippling headache "like the top of your head had been sawn off", her mind felt blank. From Wordnik.com. [The asylum experience never leaves you] Reference
She felt as if a magician had sawn through her to the backbone, hinged her open, and scooped out the lower half. From Wordnik.com. [Jigsaw Magic] Reference
The wood blocks are treated in the same way, after being sawn into the required sizes by a number of circular saws. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885] Reference
These are dug up with much effort and sawn into boards which are in great request for the ponderous Chinese coffins. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
The timber should be fairly accurately sawn or planed to the same thickness, and all edges should be square and true. From Wordnik.com. [Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used.] Reference
These had been sawn off at their base and allowed to fall on the side of the road, not across it, as one might suppose. From Wordnik.com. [Life in a Tank] Reference
This should have large square holes sawn through each end, leaving enough wood to ensure strength and solidity to the box. From Wordnik.com. [Amateur Fish Culture] Reference
Later, 97 severe cases were sent down in ordinary carriages, of which some had doors sawn out to admit lying-down patients. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
Kiln-drying of one inch oak, takes one or two weeks, quarter-sawn boards taking one and a half times as long as plain-sawn. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
Blasting is not necessary, the stone being so soft that it can be sawn out in blocks of any size to meet the architect's needs. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
Tests made show little difference in the rate of evaporation in sawn and hewn stock, the results, however, not being conclusive. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Using rough-sawn pine to match the hilly, forest terrain, the three-story home was erected on a lot Mr. Steigelman purchased in 1967. From Wordnik.com. [Not for Conformists] Reference
The large reserves of tropical hardwoods, not fully exploited, support an expanding sawmill industry that provides sawn logs for export. From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
The large reserves of tropical hardwoods, not fully exploited, support an expanding sawmill industry which provides sawn logs for export. From Wordnik.com. [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference
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