| 单词 | ranging timber |
| 释义 | > as lemmasranging timber ranging timber n. now chiefly historical straight heavy timber up to twelve (sometimes fourteen) inches in breadth or cross-section; a length of this, esp. as used for building foundations in soft ground. ΚΠ 1752 W. Douglass Summary State Brit. Settlements N.-Amer. II. 50 In North-America, Ranging Timber, Spars, Oak and Pine Plank,..Shingles & Laths are called Lumber. 1838 J. C. Loudon Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum IV. iii. cxiii. 2118 The timber..is sent to England, principally from Savannah in Georgia, in planks called ‘ranging timbers’, which are from 15 ft. to 30 ft. long, and 10 in. or 12 in. broad. 1907 J. F. Defebaugh Hist. Lumber Industry Amer. II. 17 Timber under twelve inches, was called Ranging timber. 1910 Encycl. Brit. X. 740/1 The New York Building Code..requires that every building..shall have foundations..[laid] upon piles or ranging timbers when solid earth or rock is not found. < as lemmas |
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