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Definition of Timberings
1. timbering [n] - See also: timbering
Lexicographical Neighbors of Timberings
Literary usage of Timberings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines by Andrew Ure (1858)
"They are employed instead of timberings, to support the walls and roof of galleries,
to line the sides of shafts, and to bear up the roofs of excavations. ..."
2. Railway Engineer by Railway Division (1908)
"Heavy pressure broke the strongest timberings. 1'otal advance, 4428 metres from
... Decomposed mica schists necessitated heavy timberings. Dec.—South end. ..."
3. The World Set Free: A Story of Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1914)
"... upon us for a moment, now a half-submerged boat, now a cow, now a huge fragment
of a house's timberings, now a muddle of packing-cases and scaffolding. ..."
4. History of Mediaeval Art by Franz von Reber (1886)
"... and organic connection; the roof timberings and ceiling panels are not decorated,
carvings in relief, like those of ..."
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