Word Meanings - WOODCUTTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act or employment of cutting wood or timber. 2. The act or art of engraving on wood.

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• CUTTHROAT
  One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
• TIMBERMAN
  A man employed in placing supports of timber in a mine. Weale.
• TIMBER
  A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, (more info) Sw. timber, LG. timmer, MHG. zimber, G. zimmer, F. timbre, LL.
• CUTTY
  Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark.
• ENGRAVING
  1. The act or art of producing upon hard material incised or raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like; especially, the art of producing such lines, etc., in the surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. Engraving is used for the decoration
• CUTTING
  1. The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc. 2. Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or
• CUTTYSTOOL
  1. A low stool 2. A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.
• ENGRAVEMENT
  1. Engraving. 2. Engraved work. Barrow.
• TIMBERHEAD
  The top end of a timber, rising above the gunwale, and serving for belaying ropes, etc.; -- called also kevel head.
• TIMBERLING
  A small tree.
• ENGRAVED
  Having the surface covered with irregular, impressed lines. (more info) 1. Made by engraving or ornamented with engraving.
• CUTTLE BONE
  The shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various purposes, as for making polishing powder, etc.
• EMPLOYMENT
  1. The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed. 2. That which engages or occupies; that which consumes time or attention; office or post of business; service; as, agricultural employments; mechanical employments;
• CUTTINGLY
  In a cutting manner.
• TIMBERED
  1. Furnished with timber; -- often compounded; as, a well-timbered house; a low-timbered house. L'Estrange. 2. Built; formed; contrived. Sir H. Wotton. 3. Massive, like timber. His timbered bones all broken, rudely rumbled. Spenser. 4. Covered
• ENGRAVER
  One who engraves; a person whose business it is to produce engraved work, especially on metal or wood.
• CUTTLE
  A knife. Bale.
• CUTTOO PLATE
  A hood over the end of a wagon wheel hub to keep dirt away from the axle.
• CUTTER
  1. One who cuts; as, a stone cutter; a die cutter; esp., one who cuts out garments. 2. That which cuts; a machine or part of a machine, or a tool or instrument used for cutting, as that part of a mower which severs the stalk, or as a paper cutter.
• TIMBERING
  The act of furnishing with timber; also, timbers, collectively; timberwork; timber.
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• SWARD-CUTTER
  A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower.
• SCUTTLE
  both fr. L. scutella, dim. of scutra, scuta, a dish or platter; cf. 1. A broad, shallow basket. 2. A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.
• CHALKCUTTER
  A man who digs chalk.
• ELECTRO-ENGRAVING
  The art or process of engraving by means of electricity.
• CLEAN-TIMBERED
  Well-propotioned; symmetrical. Shak.
• DISEMPLOYMENT
  The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment. This glut of leisure and disemployment. Jer. Taylor.
• STONECUTTING
  Hewing or dressing stone.
• MISEMPLOYMENT
  Wrong or mistaken employment. Johnson.
• SCREW-CUTTING
  Adapted for forming a screw by cutting; as, a screw-cutting lathe.
• TOP-TIMBERS
  The highest timbers on the side of a vessel, being those above the futtocks. R. H. Dana, Jr.