Maple or other fine-grained hardwood used as a material for making drinking vessels. Obsolete.

(perhaps) a fee charged for the transporting of goods through a forest; (perhaps) timber to be used in the construction of roads.

A group or line of piles (pile, n.1); a structure composed of piles; pilework; wood for piles.

timber for making tenters.

Wood from which pins or pegs are made.

= sense 1a.

? wood for making stop-rods.

A wooden bar used as a lever. Cf. handspike, n.

North American. A split log or rough piece of timber with one smoothed surface, used esp. for flooring and corduroy roads, and formerly for…

One of the thin slices or slips of fine or fancy wood, or other suitable material, used in veneering.

†(a) fossilized or partly fossilized wood (obsolete); (b) timber used for frames, props, etc., in a mine.

wood suitable for making broaches or spits.

(pieces of) wood of a type suitable for cutting into chips; (later also) a type of board or thin construction material made from this.

†(a) touchwood (obsolete); (b) light wood of poor quality, suitable for making into matchsticks; (c) very small pieces or splinters of wood.

fret-cutting n. the cutting of wood with a fret saw into ornamental designs; also attributive. fretwood n. wood prepared for fretwork, n. (sense 2)…

wood suitable for making paper pulp.

wood used for making coffins; spec. elm.

An ornamental veneering wood or veneer, esp. of walnut, containing knots. Also attributive, as burr-walnut. Cf. burl, n.1 4b.

wood for making spools.