GLOSSARY OF DIRECTORY OF FOREST PRODUCTS INDUSTRIES

Aromatic Cedar - Lumber cut from cedar or juniper.

Bark - Outermost covering of a tree used in landscaping or as fuel wood.

Barricades - Wooden highway/road barriers.

Baskets - Containers woven from wood strips.

Beams - Structural members used horizontally to support a load, usually larger than 5 inches in width and thickness.

Board Road - Rough lumber sometimes used by drilling companies to stabilize roadways.

Boxes - Containers made of cardboard sometimes containing corrugated linerboard.

Briquettes - Compacted mass of fine material made from charcoal, sawdust, bark, or shavings which will be used as cooking fuel.

Cabinets - Similar to a cupboard with shelves, drawers or compartments used for safekeeping or display of objects.

Cants - Logs that have had one or more sides squared off by a headsaw and are destined for further processing by the saws.

Cedar Oil - Produced from the heartwood of cedar or juniper. Cedar oil is used in products such as perfumes and cleaners.

Chips - Small pieces of wood used to make pulp. They are produced by a chipper or chipping headrig and are fairly uniform in size and shape.

Composite Board - A generic term for the following:

Cement Board - A board constructed of either cellulose or mineral particles which are bound together by cement.

 Containerboard - A type of paperboard used in the manufacture of boxes. 

Fiberboard - A type of composition board made from individual wood fibers. Hardboard - A high density fiberboard. 

Insulation board - A low density fiberboard used for insulation. Medium Density Fiberboard - An intermediate density dry formed panel product made from wood fibers. 

Oriented Strand Board - A panel made of narrow strands of fiber oriented lengthwise and crosswise in layers, with a resin binder. 

Particleboard - A panel product made from discrete particles of wood or other ligno-cellulosic material rather than from fibers. The particles are mixed with resins and formed into a solid board under heat and pressure. 

Composite Firelogs - Composite mass of wood fibers formed in the shape of a log, used as firewood.

Cones - The cone-shaped fruit or seed-bearer of conifers.

Containers - Boxes which are used to ship goods, permitting transfer from one shipping type to another without repackaging.

Cooking Wood - Wood used as fuel for cooking. May include briquettes, chunks, chips or logs.

Cooling Towers - Wooden units that are part of a refrigeration system.

Crates - Containers used in shipping.

Crossties - Cross members used to support railroad rails in a roadbed.

Custom Drying - Drying of wood on a contract basis.

Custom Sawing - Sawing of wood on a contract basis.

Decking - Lumber used primarily for roofing and flooring applications (usually 6" - 8" width).

Doors - Panel used to open or close an entranceway.

Engineered Wood - Composite wood products made from a variety of wooden materials that are designed for structural applications. Examples are:

Laminated Beams - Structural members made by gluing lumber together.

Laminated I-Beams - Structural member whose cross section resembles the letter "I", made by gluing lumber and panels together.

Laminated Veneer Lumber - Structural wood members made of veneers glued to make a flitch from which pieces of specific sizes can be trimmed.

Fencing - Wood used in construction of fences.

Finger-jointed Lumber - Lengths of lumber formed by interlocking, then gluing projecting "fingers" of two smaller pieces of lumber end-to-end. (Similar to puzzle pieces.)

Firewood - Wood to be used as fuel.

Flitch (used with laminated veneer lumber) - Complete package of thin sheets of veneer laid together in sequence as they are sawed or sliced.

Flooring - Wood products used in floors. (See also Decking.)

Furniture - Movable articles in a room.

Ladders - Two long structural members crossed by parallel rungs, used to climb or descend.

Laths - Thin, narrow strips used as a backing for wall plaster or other materials, or as a fencing material.

Log Homes - Buildings constructed from whole or half logs.

Lumber - Wood products made from logs by sawing, resawing and usually planing, with all four sides sawn.

Lumber (Dimension) - Lumber that is cut from 2 nominal inches up to, but not including, 5 nominal inches thick, and that is 2 or more nominal inches in width.

Lumber (Grade Hardwood) - Hardwood lumber cut to full-inch dimensions that is graded according to the rules published by the National Hardwood Lumber Association.

Lumber (Remanufactured) - Upgrading a lower grade lumber into a higher grade one by further manufacturing.

Lumber (Rough) - Lumber which has not been dressed, or surfaced but has been sawn, edged and trimmed.

Millwork - Lumber that has been remanufactured into door and window parts or decorative trim.

Mop and Broom Handles - Handles for mops and brooms.

Moulding - Shaped strips of wood used as decorative trim in buildings, sometimes used to hide joints.

Mushrooms - Edible fungi grown on logs (shiitake mushrooms, for example).

Nuts - Fruit or seed with a hard shell and usually a single kernel.

Pallet Stock - Lumber used to make materials-handling pallets.

Pallets - Portable wooden platforms used as a base for storing, stacking, and transporting goods in a unit.

Paper - A substance made from fibrous material, usually in thin sheets, such as:

Coated Paper - Printing paper with one of various coatings applied to enhance the display or retention of ink. Also enables printing on both sides of paper without print bleeding through to opposite side.

Newsprint- Low grade paper used chiefly for printing newspapers. Consists of no less than 65% of mechanical pulp (stone ground or thermomechanical pulp).

Recycled Paper - Paper made from at least 50% recycled fibers.

Uncoated Groundwood Paper - Higher grade paper than newsprint. Consists of more than 10% mechanical pulp (stone ground or thermomechanical pulp). Sometimes used for color advertisements in newspapers.

Paperboard - Stiff cardboard made of layers of paper, or paper pulp, compressed into a sheet, such as:

Kraft Linerboard, Unbleached - Heavy paper or paperboard made from wood using a chemical pulping process.

Bleached Paperboard - Heavy paper or paperboard that has been bleached to be used in specialized packaging.

Recycled Paperboard - Paperboard made from at least 50% recycled fibers.

Pilings - Round timber or poles driven into the ground to support a load, as a foundation for a structure, or as part of a dock or mooring.

Pine Oil - Chemical obtained from processed wood that can be used in manufacturing cleaning products.

Pine Straw - Needles from pine trees baled and distributed to be used as landscaping mulch.

Plywood - A flat panel made of a number of thin sheets (veneers) of wood in which the grain direction of each layer (ply) is at right angles to the one adjacent to it. The veneers are joined under pressure with a bonding agent.

Poles - Long, usually round pieces of wood, often small diameter logs with the bark removed, used most often to carry utility wires. Often treated with preservatives.

Posts - Pieces of lumber used in a vertical position to support a beam or other structural member in a building on as part of a fence. Though 4x4's are often called posts, most grade rules say posts must be at least 5x5 in width, with the width no more than 2 inches greater than the thickness.

Pulp - Soft, moist mass of wood fiber used in the manufacture of paper. Made by reducing wood chips to fibers by grinding them up or by chemical means, then turning the fibers into a slurry.

Pulpwood - Wood used to produce pulp used in the manufacture of paper products; wood that is too small, of inferior quality, or the wrong species to be used in the manufacture of lumber or plywood.

Salvage Timber - Dead or dying trees harvested while they are still sound and can be made into products.

Sawdust - Small particles of wood removed by the saw in cutting.

Sawlogs - Logs of sufficient size and quality to be processed into lumber.

Sculptures - Shaped figures or designs produced by carving.

Seeds - Fertilized plant ovule containing an embryo capable of developing a new plant.

Shakes - Roofing material made from wood.

Shavings - Very thin slices of wood, used in some types of panels or as agricultural litter.

Siding - Lumber or panel products used as exterior wall coverings on a building.

Skids - Pallets with no bottom deck.

Surveyor Stakes - Small pieces of wood (1x2 or 2x2) which have been cut and pointed for driving into the ground to mark a survey line or some boundary of construction.

Tree-length Wood - Logs not cut to specific lengths before being transported.

Trusses - Pre-fabricated assemblies of lumber or other stress-rated materials that form rigid frameworks to support the roof or other part of a building.

Veneer - Wood peeled or sawn or sliced into sheets of a given constant thickness and combined with glue to produce plywood or laminated veneer lumber.

Wood Flour - Wood particles that have been ground into the consistency of flour, then used as a filler or extender in composition products or plastics.

Woodturnings - Pieces or blocks of wood made into forms or shapes by means of a lathe.