plough timberplow timbern.
/ˈplaʊ ˌtɪmbə/, U.S. /ˈplaʊ ˌtɪmbər/ Now historical.
Wood used for making or repairing ploughs; spec. such wood as provided by a landlord for a tenant.
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1222 in N. Neilson Customary Rents (1910) 112 (MED) Preterea dabit per annum tres denarios quando dominus voluerit ad emendum ploutimber et erit quietus de opere unius ebdomadae.
1369 in J. Raine Inventories & Acct. Rolls Benedictine Houses Jarrow & Monk-Wearmouth (1854) 51 (MED) In factura carucarum et plohtimbir.
1381 Inquisition Misc. (P.R.O.: C 145/226/9) m. 4 Habuit apud Caxton plowtymber cum ij caruc. precii ij.s. iij.d.
1576 in M. A. Havinden Househ. & Farm Inventories Oxfordshire (1965) 70 Plow tymber & a drey.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §658 Some are best for Plough-Timber: as Ash.
1688 in J. S. Moore Goods & Chattels Forefathers (1976) 137 An old weine and all the old and new Plow Timber and Harnesse £4 0s 0d.
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husb. (1757) II. 320 All cartings wear out your plough-timber abundantly.
1793 J. J. Powell Wood's Conveyancer (ed. 5) III. 89 Sufficient plough-timber, or else in lieu of such plough-timber the sum of one pound and ten shillings in money.
1997 P. Speed Those who Worked iv. 54 And for two pieces of plough timber which he stole from me, and the trunk of a walnut tree.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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