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timber-work
1. Work executed in timber; the wooden part of any structure.
1390Gower Conf. II. 200 A wilde fyr..They caste among the timberwerk. c1470Henry Wallace viii. 617 The temir werk thai brynt wp all in playn. 1574–5Reg. Privy Council Scot. II. 432 Amendiment of the ruif and tymmer werk of thair..parroche kirk. 1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 215 Window-frames..Friezes, and Cornishes, and all other Timber-works that are expos'd to the Weather. 1864A. McKay Hist. Kilmarnock (1880) 255 The inner roof [is composed] of open, oak-varnished timber-work.
fig.1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. Seneca, The bones as it were the frame and timberworke of mans body.
2. pl. An establishment where timber is prepared or worked up.
1875W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 94 Here are extensive timber-works. |