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Brack. Wood goods below the regular classifications ; other- 

 wise Culls (which see; also " Wrack"). 



Bracked. See " Assorted." 



Brake or Actual Horse-power. The power available for actual 

 work after deducting the power required to drive the engine 

 or motor itself. One horse-power is equal to the work of 

 raising 33,000 foot-pounds per minute. One electric horse- 

 power is equal to 746 watts. 



Brake-block. A block that is, or may be, used to stop the motion 

 of a body. Instance, for retarding or arresting the motion 

 of wheels, as in railway engines, tenders, carriages, wagons, 

 carts, etc. 



Brand and Branded. As applied to timber and sawn goods, are 

 terms loosely used in the trade, or whose original meaning 

 has undergone extension from " brant " or " brent " = burnt, 

 or branded with a hot iron. A variant term for " branded " 

 is " marked." See " Quality and Shipping Marks." In- 

 stance, " marked goods " and " branded goods " are one and 

 the same thing. 



Brands or Shipping Marks on Timber. The distinguishing marks 

 used by the shippers for the various grades or qualities of 

 sawn and planed wood from America, Norway and the Baltic 

 countries, which are stencilled on the ends, generally in red. 

 White Sea and other Russian goods are more or less dry 

 hammer stamped on their ends. See " List of Shipping Marks 

 on Timber," published by William Rider & Son, Ltd., London. 



Bratticing. Sawn boarding for ventilating passages in mines. 



Brazil-wood or Braziletto (Casalpinia brasiliensis). -A hard, heavy 

 cabinet or dye wood from tropical America. 



Brazing Apparatus for Band Saws. An apparatus by means of 

 which the two ends of a band saw are held in position during 

 the process of joining them together by brazing or hard 

 soldering. 



Brazing Forge for Various Band Saws. A small forge with 

 bellows worked by foot, the top of the forge being provided 

 with separate receptacles for holding water, charcoal, etc. 

 By means of the bellows the heat is concentrated upon the 

 joint to be brazed, until the brass brazing wire wrapped 

 round it is melted and runs between the lapped joint. 



Breaking down, in sawing, is dividing the balks or logs into boards 

 or planks (American = cants) which can be sawed on the 

 main saw. The operation is called " the falling cut," and 

 as it involves getting on and off a pit or saw-frame, it is 

 charged as two cuts. 



