transitive. regional. To hew or shape (timber); to cut up (wood) into faggots or for firewood.

transitive. To give a rough preliminary shape to (wood, stone, etc.); to cut roughly or coarsely.

transitive. To split or cleave (timber); to saw in the direction of the grain, to cut with a ripsaw. Also in arrow-making: †to work (a piece of…

transitive. To lay sticks between (timber boards) in order to facilitate the circulation of air during seasoning.

Carpentry. To cut away the sappy edge of a board; to shape a block or stave by chopping.

transitive. To join, fasten (a beam, joist, girder, etc.) to, into something; to join, fasten together.

Carpentry. To fix strips of wood to (floor-timbers, rafters, etc.) in order to bring them to a level, or to the required surface. Also with off. (Cf…

transitive. Shipbuilding and Woodworking. To shape (a piece of timber) so as to create a sharp, bevelled, or rounded edge. Cf. beard, n. 14.

To stack or put up (wood) in ‘cords’.

Chiefly North American. transitive. To cut off the rough ends of (a log or board); spec. to cut off the butt end (butt end, n.1 3) of (a log).

transitive. To pierce or bore a hole, passage, etc. in (anything); to perforate with or as with a drill or similar tool. Also spec. to shoot with a…

transitive. To connect by a joint or joints; to fasten, fit together, unite. Carpentry, etc. To prepare (a board, stave, etc.) for being joined to…

transitive. technical. To make (laths) by cleaving wood along the grain into thin strips; (also) to strip (trees) of bark.

To enlarge and finish (a drilled hole) with a ‘broach’ or boring-bit. Also with adverb out.

transitive. Esp. in logging: to remove (the outer layer of bark) from a log or tree; also with tree as object.

transitive. To cut (a log) into flitches, also, to cut as a flitch is cut.

transitive. To pierce, perforate, make a hole in or through; in modern use esp. to pierce by means of a rotatory movement like that of an auger or…

transitive to assign a stress grade to (timber).