woodworking
(ˈwʊdˌwɜr kɪŋ)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
the act or art of working wood.
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yoke
Webster Dictionary
a bar or frame of wood by which two oxen are joined at the heads or necks for working together
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joiner
Webster Dictionary
a wood-working machine, for sawing, plaining, mortising, tenoning, grooving, etc
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wood chisel
(wood chisel)
Princeton's WordNet
a chisel for working wood; it is either struck with a mallet or pushed by hand
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lathe
(ɪð)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a machine for use in working a piece of wood, metal, etc., by holding and rotating it about a horizontal axis against a tool that shapes it.
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roll-top desk
(ˈroʊlˌoʊ vər)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a desk with a flexible sliding cover, often of closely set wood strips, that can be pulled down over the working surface or rolled up beneath the top.
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working-day
Webster Dictionary
pertaining to, or characteristic of, working days, or workdays; everyday; hence, plodding; hard-working
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stope
Webster Dictionary
a horizontal working forming one of a series, the working faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps
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kit
Webster Dictionary
a box for working implements; hence, a working outfit, as of a workman, a soldier, and the like
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feed
Webster Dictionary
to produce progressive operation upon or with (as in wood and metal working machines, so that the work moves to the cutting tool, or the tool to the work)
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industrious
(ɪnˈdʌs tri əs)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
working energetically and devotedly; hard-working; diligent:
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overtime
(ˈoʊ vərˌtaɪm)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
working time before or after one's regularly scheduled working hours.
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jacaranda
Webster Dictionary
the native Brazilian name for certain leguminous trees, which produce the beautiful woods called king wood, tiger wood, and violet wood
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movement
(ˈmuv mənt)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
the working parts or a distinct portion of the working parts of a mechanism, as of a watch.
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ligneous
Webster Dictionary
made of wood; consisting of wood; of the nature of, or resembling, wood; woody
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wood
Webster Dictionary
to supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive
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woad-waxen
Webster Dictionary
a leguminous plant (Genista tinctoria) of Europe and Russian Asia, and adventitious in America; -- called also greenwood, greenweed, dyer's greenweed, and whin, wood-wash, wood-wax, and wood-waxen
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logwood
Webster Dictionary
the heartwood of a tree (Haematoxylon Campechianum), a native of South America, It is a red, heavy wood, containing a crystalline substance called haematoxylin, and is used largely in dyeing. An extract from this wood is used in medicine as an astringent. Also called Campeachy wood, and bloodwood
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veneer
(əˈnɪər)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
to overlay or face (wood) with thin sheets of some material, as a fine wood, ivory, or tortoiseshell.
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creosote
(ˈkri əˌsoʊt)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
an strong-smelling, oily liquid obtained by the distillation of coal and wood tar, used as a wood preservative and as an antiseptic.
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quebracho
(ɪˈbrɑ tʃoʊ)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
any of several tropical American trees having very hard wood, esp. Schinopsis lorentzii, the wood and bark of which are used in tanning and dyeing.
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veneer
(əˈnɪər)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a thin layer of wood or other material for facing or inlaying wood.
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butcher block
(ˈbʊtʃ ərˌbɜrd)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a slab of wood formed by bonding or gluing together thick laminated strips of wood in alternating light and dark shades.
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block
(ɒk)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a piece of wood used in the art of making woodcuts or wood engravings.
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woodcut
Webster Dictionary
an engraving on wood; also, a print from it. Same as Wood cut, under Wood
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hag
Webster Dictionary
a small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or inclosed for felling, or which has been felled
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alburnum
Webster Dictionary
the white and softer part of wood, between the inner bark and the hard wood or duramen; sapwood
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photoxylography
Webster Dictionary
the process of producing a representation of an object on wood, by photography, for the use of the wood engraver
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pyroxylic
Webster Dictionary
derived from wood by distillation; -- formerly used in designating crude wood spirit
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tracheid
Webster Dictionary
a wood cell with spiral or other markings and closed throughout, as in pine wood
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