Carpentry

Carpentry

Of or relating to the art of making objects, buildings or furniture out of wood.

Industry: Construction

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canted

Construction; Carpentry

Angled or leaning. In architecture, a part, or segment, of a facade which is at an angle to another part of the same facade.

cantilever

Construction; Carpentry

A projecting beam (or other part of a structure) that is secured at one end only.

burl

Construction; Carpentry

Tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner. It is commonly found in the form of a rounded outgrowth on a tree trunk or branch that is filled with small knots from dormant buds.

built-up roof

Construction; Carpentry

Roofing composed of multiple layers of rag felt or jute sauturated with pitch, asphalt or coal tar, finished on the top with gravel or crushed slag. Used typically on low pitch or flat roofs.

box nail

Construction; Carpentry

A wire nail with a head; box nails have a smaller shank than common nails of the same size and are used on thin materials in lieu of regular larger nails or finishing nails.

Unit of volume for measuring lumber in the united states and canada. It is the volume of a one foot length of a board one foot wide and one inch thick. Board-foot is abbreviated fbm (for "foot, board ...