What is the name meaning of TIMBERS. Phrases containing TIMBERS
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Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a wattler, Middle English watelere, i.e. someone who made the panels of interwoven twigs that were used to fill the spaces between the structural timbers of a timber frame building. See also Dauber.
Surname or Lastname
English (Norfolk)
English (Norfolk) : unexplained.
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Boy/Male
Armenian, Australian
Sign
Boy/Male
Belgium, Hindu, Indian, Swiss, Tamil
One who Protects
Girl/Female
Hindu
Flower creeper, Flower
Girl/Female
Tamil
Tejasmita | தேஜஸà¯à®®à¯€à®¤à®¾
Girl/Female
Italian
Sculptured jewel.
Boy/Male
Celtic Gaelic Irish American
Dark stranger.
Girl/Female
Arabic
Sugar; Sweet
Biblical
whistling; hissing
Boy/Male
Muslim/Islamic
A narrator of hadith had this name
Girl/Female
Arabic, Kurdish, Muslim, Parsi
Garden; Rose Garden
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n.
The art of stiffening or bracing a set of timbers, or the like, by putting in struts, ties, etc., till it has something of the character of a truss.
a.
To injure by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force; as, the gale strained the timbers of the ship.
n.
A beam acting as a tie, as at the bottom of a pair of principal rafters, to prevent them from thrusting out the wall. See Illust. of Timbers, under Roof.
n.
A tie securing two timbers together, not used for part of a regular truss, but serving a temporary purpose, as to provide against unusual strain.
v. t.
To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.
v. t.
A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other (and usually with loopholes) to form a barrier, or defensive fortification.
n.
The frame or timbers on which a ship rests while building.
n.
The timbers, etc., which form a truss, taken collectively.
n.
The highest timbers on the side of a vessel, being those above the futtocks.
v. t.
To unite, as spars, timbers, rails, etc., by lapping the two ends together, or by applying a piece which laps upon the two ends, and then binding, or in any way making fast.
n.
Work made of timbers.
n.
A bolt used by shipwrights, to bend and secure the planks against the timbers till they are fastened by bolts, spikes, or treenails; -- not to be confounded with ringbolt.
n.
The act of furnishing with timber; also, timbers, collectively; timberwork; timber.
n.
The timbers on which a ship is launched.
n.
A long wooden pin used in fastening the planks of a vessel to the timbers or to each other.
n.
A piece of board that is laid upon a wall as a sort of plate, to give a level surface to the ends of floor timbers; -- rarely used in the United States.
n.
One of the principal transverse timbers of the stern, bolted to the sternpost and giving shape to the stern structure; -- called also transsummer.
v. t.
A beam or rod for holding two parts together; in railways, one of the transverse timbers which support the track and keep it in place.
n.
A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.
v.
The broadest part of a plank worked top and but (see Top and but, under Top, n.), or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.