Word Meanings - QUARTERSAW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To saw (a log) into quarters; specif., to saw into quarters and then into boards, as by cutting alternately from each face of a quarter, to secure lumber that will warp relatively little or show the grain advantageously.

• Specify
  To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to specify articles purchased.
• Graining.
  of Grain
• Quartered
  of Quartter
• Relatively
  In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely.
• CUTTLECUTTLEFISH
  A cephalopod of the genus Sepia, having an internal shell, large eyes, and ten arms furnished with denticulated suckers, by means of which it secures its prey. The name is sometimes applied to dibranchiate cephalopods generally. Note: It has an ink bag
• Quartering
  of Quartter
• CUTTLEBONE
  The shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various purposes, as for making polishing powder, etc.
• Advantageously
  Profitably; with advantage.
• Grainfield
  A field where grain is grown.
• Quarterage
  A quarterly allowance.
• CUTTOOPLATE
  A hood over the end of a wagon wheel hub to keep dirt away from the axle.
• Alternately
  In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.
• Graining
  Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins.
• Quarter-deck
  That part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast, including the poop deck when there is one.
• Securely
  In a secure manner; without fear or apprehension; without danger; safely.
• LITTLEEASE
  An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison.[Eng.] Latimer.

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