How to use timbers in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word timbers? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples Of the most popular timbers maple is the hardest, with ash, beech, oak and cherry following respectively. Bed rollers close to the blade reduced the friction of timbers on the machined cast iron table. The house or building is reinforced with timbers supporting the floors inside. The cob linhay was in very poor condition and had lost its original roof timbers and a substantial section of the cob walling. He refers to the presence of a keel and ribs made of light timbers, which indicates he was referring to curraghs. More than 300 planks have been fitted and now the ribs or timbers will be restored or replaced. Such ships were robustly built with stout planking secured to massive framing timbers, with a single mast possibly rigged with a square sail. The roof timbers consisted of right-angled yellow wood beams, combined with round poplar poles and held together with wooden pegs. The house has since been completely re-roofed and limewashed, new floors and interior walls have been laid, and timbers and windows replaced. A glance upward through the ceiling area reveals the huge cross timbers, and the complex joinery of the gambrel roof system. One of the first steps is to treat dampness and replace any rotten timbers. Its roof has been torn off by the massive blast that scattered debris and timbers across the courtyard. But if you have loose soil, consider using landscape timbers or another edging material to hold everything in place. An eightyfold increase in coal production led to the need for more lumber for mine props, timbers, and planks. The cruck blades used in its construction spring directly from the groundsills and these support the roof timbers. Externally what catch the eye are the closely spaced vertical timbers, quatrefoil decoration, and windows with moulded timber mullions. Historically, common practice was to lay down timbers to form a corduroy road bed. Applewhite used tile payers, a sturdy arbor made of recycled timbers, and a pair of antique, hand-carved corbels to give the patio character. The timbers are jungle jackfruit, the lashings are coir rope, the walls are bamboo matting and roofs are local thatch. He likes clean, simple lines but also creates interesting effects by using contrasting timbers such as walnut and maple. Show More Sentences In Korea, a well-insulated oversailing roof with two layers of timbers separated by an earthen blanket provided the essential sunshade. When selecting your decking planks, always check that the timbers are either hardwood or pressure treated softwood. I've seen people take chicken wire and staple it to the top of their landscaping timbers on a raised bed to keep out geese and the like. It smashed through a garage and washroom, split roof timbers in her bungalow, and ended up near her bedroom. Remove specified trees with bowsaws, trimming off brash and stacking 2m length timbers. Even when the water cannon finally beat back the flames, timbers smoked and embers smouldered until rain finally fell. The boarded threshing floor in the main area of the barn will be reinstated and roof timbers are being replaced. A house, is it? Well shiver me timbers. I always wondered what one looked like on the inside. Boring holes in oak ships' timbers for the wooden pegs or iron bolts required long augers of high strength. The quality of the ship timbers produced by the Samoans did not escape notice. Although much of the decking is rotten, the structural timbers are intact giving some parts of the wreck a skeleton appearance. Most of the timbers from the ship have now been lifted and are currently being conserved in wet tanks at a disused steelworks nearby. This is the wreck of a very old wooden sailing vessel complete with huge oak timbers, row upon row of copper nails and who knows what else. There was other, direct, evidence of dry rot in the timbers of the building. Cedar, fir, and pine were the preferred ship timbers of the ancient Mediterranean. The walls have wooden panelling, the timbers of the roof are exposed and the views over Glasgow are panoramic. The result is a charming house full of exposed brick walls and old timbers. The interior features are what make the building so special, with intact original Tudor ironwork and timbers. This room also features a Georgian fireplace with cast iron inset and exposed black floor timbers. Mr Ward said the droppings had blocked the gutters and downpipes on the building, causing water to seep into the roof timbers. Show More Sentences The other comes from the echo that resounds through the timbers and floor-boards. Masses of vines spiraled upward against the vertical timbers and covered the thatched roof. Repairs to the plasterwork, timbers, roof and pillars were carried out and the structure was also lime washed. Both the English and Dutch used heavy timbers to construct mortise and tenon frames. Once the excavation is complete, the trackway will be backfilled with earth again, as this is the best way to preserve the timbers. Some of the principal beams, old ship's timbers, survived although they look rather lonely, silhouetted against the sky. I slopped the stuff on and miraculously the ashen timbers of our bench and table suite turned slowly back to a healthy brown. Burnt roof timbers beneath the collapsed tiles show it was destroyed in a fire. All the roof timbers have been retained in the church except where a rafter of wall plate was absolutely rotten. The reference to horn and ivory show that composite bows were known, and the inclusion of yew shows they knew of this best of bow timbers. The difficulty in sourcing timbers led him to open a recycled timber business. The timbers and tank for the structure were salvaged from a wrecked ship, the Martha Ridgway. The low, irregular ceiling is crisscrossed with beams made from ships' timbers and a log fire crackles merrily in the hearth. When daylight came, already the roof of the dome, with its cupola and lantern, had fallen in, its timbers burning fiercely. The timbers are often cut and dressed by hand, jointed and interlocked in the traditional way, and fastened throughout with wood pegs. Radially sawn timbers give better yields and more stable sections than conventionally milled timbers. They probably won't actually have to whipsaw timbers to make their own boats, but lots of other touches will be as authentic as can be arranged. The main timbers for the trusses were 12 in x 8in and were 40 ft long and they were used to construct 13 A-frames. These were the areas where teams of sawyers worked to saw out the various timbers to their finished dimensions. Wood floors must be adequately protected from damp and soft timbers can be easily gouged by heels, chair legs and animal claws. Show More Sentences The oil is injected into wood timbers or, if wood is unpainted, applied topically to soak in. A serious woodworm out-break in the sanctuary was discovered and all affected timbers have now been removed. During Victorian times, the use of more exotic timbers like mahogany and ebony became popular, meaning trees were exported from Africa, Asia and the Americas. Many of the ceilings were originally of New Zealand timbers such as teak and mansonia, some of which have now been covered up with false fibreglass ceilings. Traditional construction of trussed roofs has these timbers built into the main walls for bearing in what is the most likely part of the wall to be wet. John Hadley builds his house in 1778 from the timbers of wrecked boats, while the British blockade the port and his wife, Coral, plants turnips and sweet peas. The timbers were the uprights of wattle fences, the complex containing up to 100,000 square feet or 30,500 square metres of fencing, some of which still survives. At York, the timbers were immersed for two years in tanks of aqueous polyethylene glycol, a water-soluble wax used to replace the water in the wood. Timber framing refers to a specific type of post and beam construction in which solid wood timbers are joined by means of traditional wooden joinery. A virtual kaleidoscope of colour inundate not only the standing piles, but also overrun old fallen timbers that overlap, forming small overhangs and grottoes. One of the men had experience with tripods and derricks so they built two A-frames out of timbers and used pulleys and cables to lift the plane up, literally inch-by-inch. The ladder cracked and he was suddenly unsupported in the darkness, scrabbling with both hands to hold on to timbers, losing his grip and dangling from the rope. These buildings could be substantial, consisting normally of a low wall of stone with a roof of thatch, skins, or other organic material supported by timbers. There were also the remains of ship's timbers, nails and other metalwork. The stairways and the timbers used have had few equals in the present day. The wreck is wooden, with the timbers laid in a double-diamond pattern. Solid timbers and struts took on the grotesque softness of a shelled oyster, as glass shattered, cloth rippled, and counters spewed their contents. Preferred materials are stone and adobe brick fortified by heavy timbers. The shaping of the timbers was accomplished mostly by the use of a variety of adzes, and broadaxes, each one especially designed for a specific purpose. Underground, many artefacts can be seen, including stemples supporting stacked deads, ladders, pump rods and pipes, pulleys, ore tubs, windlasses, guide chutes and timbers. Show More Sentences These repairs uncovered extensive water damage to the supporting timbers, stonework and plaster, and it was feared that the church might be bulldozed. A big pond flanks the left-hand side of the fairway and an old boat, timbers rotting in the sun, gives the hole the ambience of desolation I mentioned earlier. Large timbers were used to frame many of the beds pictured on these pages. They had their foremasts removed and their hulls reinforced with massive oak timbers to accommodate one or two powerful sea mortars of either 10-inch or 13-inch caliber. It may have been the sound of timbers creaking as the temperature dropped. As many of these have become harder to come by instrument makers have been turning increasingly to timbers from fruitwoods such as Walnut and cherry. The timbers originally were tree boles squared with a broadaxe or adze and joined together with joinery without nails. Rabbit and squirrel skins were traded and taxed in timbers of 40 hides each. Then the ferry-boat was delightful to the new traveller, with its long, white-ceiled passages, and its smell of wet timbers and tarred ropes. Apply your sealegs, shiver your timbers and join the good Captain Cook on a voyage of musical discovery on the HMS Bark Endeavour, Stockton. New beams in the lounge and dining hall have been aged to match originals and re-claimed timbers used for internal ledged and boarded doors. Our stock timbers, which include oak, ash, sapele, iroko, beech, sycamore, yellow poplar and idigbo can be cut and machined to order. The dining room echoes the timbers of the house and features traditional wattle and daub construction. If houses were present these could be used to conceal the mine opening. As the mine progressed the roof was shored with timbers. After eleven years, on 27 June 1838 the centre arches of the bridge collapsed, the timbers had been eaten through by shipworms. The pits may have contained standing timbers creating a timber circle, although there is no excavated evidence of them. Our ash is not tough and hard like that, but has an open grain, and is among the most brash or breakly of our timbers. This is possibly indicated from the reconstruction of the fort at Carlisle in 83 using oak timbers from further afield, rather than local alder. Realizing that the ship was beyond repair, Columbus ordered his men to strip the timbers from the ship. Cladding, shingles, sill plates and exposed timbers or glulam beams are examples of potential applications for treated wood. Show More Sentences In the summer of 1836, a group of five fishermen caught their nets on timbers protruding from the bottom of the Solent. The timbers and contents of the port side were deposited in the scour pits and the remaining ship structure, or else carried off by the currents. Archaeologists have discovered large quantities of burnt flints, mounds of timbers and pits dug into the ground. By 1843 the whole of the keel and the bottom timbers had been raised and the site was declared clear. The truncated horn timbers had been led through the transom and firmly fastened to it. They arrived in Darien to find the burnt timbers of the Olive Branch rotting on the shore. Eight carriage bolts secure a platform to the timbers and the blind is fastened to the platform using just 12 screws. Vertical slender timbers, known as staves, are then inserted and these hold the whole panel within the timber frame. Huge amounts of water were needed to provide jets at great height to hit the roof timbers and protect the Rose Window. Accounts record the large number of wagons and barges which delivered the jointed timbers to Westminster for assembly. Shiver me sails an' rot me timbers, fry me barnacles, scrape me keel, an' all that nautical jimjam. A suspended grid of heavy timbers partly conceals the gunite roof, and accommodates services. The same should be done to timbers that have high resin content, such as Gurjun and Douglas Fir and others. It is believed that they would have had a conical roof, supported by timbers and covered in turf or thatch. The crew discovered that Mary had rotting timbers, so they burned the ship. S HIVER me timbers, there's a great day galloping out of the starting gates at Aintree. Further standing timbers were placed at the northeast entrance, and a parallel alignment of posts ran inwards from the southern entrance. In May 1981, Alexander McKee voiced concerns about the method chosen for raising the timbers and openly questioned Margaret Rule's position as excavation leader. The consistent size of timbers demonstrates that loggers were selectively harvesting trees over broad regions rather than clearcutting one area before moving on. There's an old grammar school, a stunning 13th-century church and the Tudor Merchant's House which boasts 500-year-old timbers, exposed wattle and daub. Show More Sentences The largest timbers used in the construction were of roughly the same size as those used in the roofs of the largest cathedrals in the high Middle Ages. AuOnce, this was a stout ship, with oak futtocks and floor timbers, fastened with iron nails, built with saw and adz and the calloused hands of shipwrights now long dead. For example, the matter of a house is the bricks, stones, timbers etc. Tree rings in the hull timbers from the 15th century ship found in Newport have been matched by scientists to tree rings in contemporary buildings in the Basque Country. Deck beams were supported by hanging knees, triangular pieces of wood typically found underneath the timbers they are designed to support, but in this case found above them. Strong contrasting colours and finishes are in dark red onyx marble, red velvets, bronze metal, dark timbers and embossed leathers in buttery cream and tan. These large timbers were shaped with both adze and broadaxe. The outside of the towers still have the putlog holes from their original construction, where timbers were inserted to create a spiralling ramp for the builders. The house Longhorn Beetle is principally found in roof timbers, where it attacks the sapwood of exclusively softwood species, often resulting in severe structural weakness. Examples from Classical Literature And you must have toes to grip, and thighs to brace you against the heeling timbers. The timbers of the roof are on, and we are beginning to board it for slating. The dignity of myopia exudes from the timbers of its long, quaint club-house. Dennis snatched up a belaying pin and brought it with all his force against the door, but made no impression on its stout timbers. The same is true of many other timbers, notably sweet and yellow birch, black cherry, and several of the oaks. I saw the saggy, rotten timbers that kept the State of Pennsylvania from cavin' in on us. Up he got from his seat upon the firkin, and his head was in the shadows of the smoky timbers. To these timbers are fixed small timbers along the footwall, to which are fastened the lagging and ladders. About the road there sounded somewhere the splintering of stone and timbers. He built it of bricks of Sumer, and the timbers which he set in place were as strong as the dragon of the deep. The Lady Nepean hurled her old timbers along under close-reefed maintopsail, and a rag of a foresail only. The sinking a rabbet in the dead-wood, wherein the heels of the timbers rest. One raker, or diagonal strut, was rotted half through its thickness, and many other timbers were badly decayed. There was a cracking and rending of timbers, and the water rushed in. Meanwhile Calypso came back with some augers, so he bored holes with them and fitted the timbers together with bolts and rivets. Her bottom was stove in, her planks and timbers were riven like matchwood. You see there lying about the timbers of more than one tall ship. We could matchboard the timbers over if you like, but it is not usual. The ends of big timbers in her hull were ground to pulp and matchwood. At first she seemed just a blotch of color upon the old burned timbers. Show More Sentences Bars of thick wood, cemented into heavy timbers at top and bottom. As well as the studio, the original exterior timbers, with holes and scratches, have been saved and reassembled as louvres on the facade. Inside the original old property there are exposed beams and timbers, inglenooks and exposed wood flooring. Supply of pine Boules, impregnated round timber, impregnated half logs, plywood, square timbers as a cross of wood and oak Boules. The lower grades can be used for light framing and building timbers, weatherboards, pallets, boxes, laminated material, and truck tailboards. It tears through the oaken timbers and into one of the steam-boilers. The sittings in the nave, and the roof timbers, are of pitch pine. Some hidden factory sent up a yellow glare, that lit for a moment the waters lapping oilily against timbers. A plank had been broken, but ribs and timbers were uncracked. Some of the timbers from the ship were used in beams and for building the bar in the town's Cottage Loaf pub and some lives on in the beams of the Great Orme's visitor centre. The rafters, I observed, were made out of the timbers of a ship. Slipping across the water, the English sailors bore away bars of silver, bales of linen, timbers of cedar wood, golden crucifixes knobbed with emeralds. The timbers beneath are of a peculiar strength, fitted to sustain the weight of an almost solid mass of brick and mortar, some ten feet by eight square, and five in height. The stench of bad beef was in his nostrils, while in his ears, to the accompaniment of creaking timbers and groaning bulkheads, echoed the loud mouth-noises of the eaters. The red cap of one of the sailors hung to a point of the rock and some timbers that had formed part of the vessel's keel, floated at the foot of the crag. Find more words! Another word for Opposite of Meaning of Rhymes with Sentences with Find word forms Translate from English Translate to English Words With Friends Scrabble Crossword / Codeword Words starting with Words ending with Words containing exactly Words containing letters Pronounce Find conjugations Find names From Afrikaans From Albanian From Amharic From Arabic From Armenian From Azerbaijani From Basque From Belarusian From Bengali From Bosnian From Bulgarian From Catalan From Cebuano From Chichewa From Chinese From Corsican From Croatian From Czech From Danish From Dutch From Esperanto From Estonian From Farsi From Filipino From Finnish From French From Frisian From Galician From Georgian From German From Greek From Gujarati From Haitian Creole From Hausa From Hebrew From Hindi From Hmong From Hungarian From Icelandic From Igbo From Indonesian From Irish From Italian From Japanese From Javanese From Kannada From Kazakh From Khmer From Korean From Kurdish From Kyrgyz From Lao From Latin From Latvian From Lithuanian From Luxembourgish From Macedonian From Malagasy From Malay From Malayalam From Maltese From Maori From Marathi From Mongolian From Burmese From Nepali From Norwegian From Polish From Portuguese From Punjabi From Romanian From Russian From Samoan From Scots Gaelic From Serbian From Sesotho From Shona From Sinhala From Slovak From Slovenian From Somali From Spanish From Sundanese From Swahili From Swedish From Tajik From Tamil From Telugu From Thai From Turkish From Ukrainian From Urdu From Uzbek From Vietnamese From Welsh From Xhosa From Yiddish From Yoruba From Zulu To Afrikaans To Albanian To Amharic To Arabic To Armenian To Azerbaijani To Basque To Belarusian To Bengali To Bosnian To Bulgarian To Catalan To Cebuano To Chichewa To Chinese To Corsican To Croatian To Czech To Danish To Dutch To Esperanto To Estonian To Farsi To Filipino To Finnish To French To Frisian To Galician To Georgian To German To Greek To Gujarati To Haitian Creole To Hausa To Hebrew To Hindi To Hmong To Hungarian To Icelandic To Igbo To Indonesian To Irish To Italian To Japanese To Javanese To Kannada To Kazakh To Khmer To Korean To Kurdish To Kyrgyz To Lao To Latin To Latvian To Lithuanian To Luxembourgish To Macedonian To Malagasy To Malay To Malayalam To Maltese To Maori To Marathi To Mongolian To Burmese To Nepali To Norwegian To Polish To Portuguese To Punjabi To Romanian To Russian To Samoan To Scots Gaelic To Serbian To Sesotho To Shona To Sinhala To Slovak To Slovenian To Somali To Spanish To Sundanese To Swahili To Swedish To Tajik To Tamil To Telugu To Thai To Turkish To Ukrainian To Urdu To Uzbek To Vietnamese To Welsh To Xhosa To Yiddish To Yoruba To Zulu English French Afrikaans Word Albanian Word Arabic Word Bengali Word Chinese Word Croatian Word Czech Word Danish Word Dutch Word English Word Finnish Word French Word German Word Greek Word Hindi Word Hungarian Word Icelandic Word Indonesian Word Italian Word Japanese Word Korean Word Latin Word Malay Word Malayalam Word Marathi Word Nepali Word Norwegian Word Polish Word Portuguese Word Romanian Word Russian Word Serbian Word Slovak Word Spanish Word Swahili Word Swedish Word Tamil Word Telugu Word Thai Word Turkish Word Ukrainian Word Uzbek Word Vietnamese Word Welsh Word All words 2-letter words 3-letter words 4-letter words 5-letter words 6-letter words 7-letter words 8-letter words 9-letter words 10-letter words 11-letter words 12-letter words 13-letter words 14-letter words Plural of Singular of Past tense of Present tense of Verb for Adjective for Adverb for Noun for Meaning of name Origin of name Names meaning Names starting with Names of origin timbers Use * for blank tiles (max 2) Advanced Search Advanced Search Use * for blank spaces Advanced Search Advanced Word Finder See Also What is another word for timbers? Words that rhyme with timbers What is the adjective for timbers? What is the noun for timbers? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words timbermen timberman timberline timberlands timberland timbering timberwork timbral timbre timbrel timbres Timbuctoo 7-letter Words Starting With t ti tim timb timbe timber