Scantling vs. Timber

Scantlingnoun

The set size or dimension of a piece of timber, stone etc., or materials used to build ships or aircraft.

Scantlingnoun

(archaic) A small portion, a scant amount.

Scantlingnoun

A small, upright beam of timber used in construction, especially less than five inches square.

Scantlingnoun

(uncountable) Timber in the form of small beams and pieces.

Scantlingnoun

(obsolete) A rough draught; a crude sketch or outline.

Scantlingnoun

(obsolete) A frame for casks to lie upon; a trestle.

Scantlingadjective

Not plentiful; small; scanty.

Scantlingadjective

Not plentiful; small; scanty.

Scantlingnoun

A fragment; a bit; a little piece.

Scantlingnoun

A small quantity; a little bit; not much.

Scantlingnoun

A piece of timber sawed or cut of a small size, as for studs, rails, etc.

Scantlingnoun

The dimensions of a piece of timber with regard to its breadth and thickness; hence, the measure or dimensions of anything.

Scantlingnoun

A rough draught; a rude sketch or outline.

Scantlingnoun

A frame for casks to lie upon; a trestle.

Scantlingnoun

an upright in house framing

Scantling

Scantling is a measurement of prescribed size, dimensions, or cross sectional areas.

Timbernoun

(uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.

Timbernoun

Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.

Timbernoun

(countable) A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy support for something such as a roof.

Timbernoun

The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.

Timbernoun

(archaic) A certain quantity of fur skins (as of martens, ermines, sables, etc.) packed between boards; in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty. Also timmer, timbre.

Timberinterjection

Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.

Timberverb

(transitive) To fit with timbers.

Timberverb

To construct, frame, build.

Timberverb

To light or land on a tree.

Timberverb

(obsolete) To make a nest.

Timberverb

(transitive) To surmount as a timber does.

Timbernoun

A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty; - called also timmer.

Timbernoun

The crest on a coat of arms.

Timbernoun

That sort of wood which is proper for buildings or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships, and the like; - usually said of felled trees, but sometimes of those standing. Cf. Lumber, 3.

Timbernoun

The body, stem, or trunk of a tree.

Timbernoun

Fig.: Material for any structure.

Timbernoun

A single piece or squared stick of wood intended for building, or already framed; collectively, the larger pieces or sticks of wood, forming the framework of a house, ship, or other structure, in distinction from the covering or boarding.

Timbernoun

Woods or forest; wooden land.

Timbernoun

A rib, or a curving piece of wood, branching outward from the keel and bending upward in a vertical direction. One timber is composed of several pieces united.

Timberverb

To surmount as a timber does.

Timberverb

To furnish with timber; - chiefly used in the past participle.

Timberverb

To light on a tree.

Timberverb

To make a nest.

Timbernoun

the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material

Timbernoun

a beam made of wood

Timbernoun

a post made of wood

Timbernoun

land that is covered with trees and shrubs

Timbernoun

(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound);