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Cant timbersCant Cant, n. [OF., edge, angle, prof. from L. canthus the
iron ring round a carriage wheel, a wheel, Gr. ? the corner
of the eye, the felly of a wheel; cf. W. cant the stake or
tire of a wheel. Cf. Canthus, Canton, Cantle.]
1. A corner; angle; niche. [Obs.]
The first and principal person in the temple was
Irene, or Peace; she was placed aloft in a cant.
--B. Jonson.
2. An outer or external angle.
3. An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope
or bevel; a titl. --Totten.
4. A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a
bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so
give; as, to give a ball a cant.
5. (Coopering) A segment forming a side piece in the head of
a cask. --Knight.
6. (Mech.) A segment of he rim of a wooden cogwheel.
--Knight.
7. (Naut.) A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to
support the bulkheads.
Cant frames, Cant timbers (Naut.), timber at the two ends
of a ship, rising obliquely from the keel. Top-timbers
Top-timbers Top"-tim`bers, n. (Naut.)
The highest timbers on the side of a vessel, being those
above the futtocks. --R. H. Dana, Jr.
Meaning of TIMBERS from wikipedia
- The
Portland Timbers are an
American professional soccer club
based in Portland, Oregon. The
Timbers compete in
Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member...
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early twelfth century,
timbers were
standardized to
eight cross-sectional dimensions.
Regardless of the
actual dimensions of the
timber, the
ratio between...
- in
plain timber frames. A
cruck is a pair of
crooked or
curved timbers which form a bent (U.S.) or
crossframe (UK); the
individual timbers are each called...
- as "Twisted
Timbers" on
March 24, 2018,
featuring three overbanked turns,
three inversions, and
twenty airtime moments.
Twisted Timbers is also faster...
- "Shiver me
timbers" (or "shiver my
timbers" in
Standard English) is an
exclamation in the form of a mock oath
usually attributed to the
speech of pirates...
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Battle of
Fallen Timbers – Chickasaw.TV
Battle of
Fallen Timbers Battle of
Fallen Timbers – Encyclopædia
Britannica Fallen Timbers Battlefield and Fort...
- my
timbers in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Shiver My
timbers (or My)
Timbers may
refer to:
Shiver my
timbers, an
exclamation Shiver My
Timbers (1931)...
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portion of
Austin and
Travis County is also
included in the
Cross Timbers. The
Cross Timbers are
defined by the
United States Environmental Protection Agency...
-
Grammy Award.
Timbers received the
Drama League Founder's
Award for
Excellence in
Directing and the
Jerome Robbins Award for Directing.
Timbers received a...
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Portland Timbers, he came back in 2001 to join the new
Portland Timbers. On
January 24, 2008, Jim
announced his retirement. He was
replaced by
Timber Joey...
