ship-timbern.
Timber for shipbuilding.
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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. iv. 905 Of þis tree [sc. ver] is good schip tymbre ymade.
1408–9 tr. Vegetius' De Re Milit. (Digby 233) lf. 224/1 Loke þat schip tymbre haue þe double tyme to drye.
1503 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1900) II. 282 To the sawaris of the schip tymir.
1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis v. ii. 332 The place being a vast Countrey, and without ship-timber.
1664 in Marshall Edwinstow Reg. (1891) 39 Hodgshon..was killed in the wood..with a peece of shipptimber.
1785 J. Phillips Treat. Inland Navigation 17 Decrease of ship-timber..is a very alarming circumstance to a people whose riches and power depend so greatly upon navigation.
1847 A. C. Smeaton Builder's Pocket Man. (new ed.) 43 The larch..makes excellent ship-timber.
1878 R. Browning Poets Croisic i. v Our log is old ship-timber.
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