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Kiln. A large stove or oven constructed for the purpose of drying 

 anything. In the instance of drying wood-goods, the term 

 " stove " is generally used, hence " kiln-dried " and " stove- 

 dried " are equivalent terms. See " Desiccation " and 

 " Desiccating." 



Kiln-dried Saps. A term applied in America to flooring boards 

 and planks cut from the sapwood of pitch pine and dried in. 

 a kiln before shipment. 



Kiln-drying. Drying or seasoning of wood by artificial heat in 

 an enclosed room. 



Kindling Wood. -In a popular sense, is another term for 

 " sticks " or " firewood " a swift burning class of fuel most 

 used for starting or inciting a fire. 



King Post. The part which in a truss extends between the apex 

 of two inclined pieces and the tie beam which unites their 

 lower ends, as in a king post roof. This implies one post 

 only in a principal as distinct from the larger constructions 

 which have two posts and are termed " Queen-posts " (which 

 see). 



KingWOOd. A species of wood from Guiana and other tropical 

 countries, of a purple colour, hence it is sometimes called 

 " Purple-heart " or " Violet wood." 



Kinked. A " buckled " saw, whose surface undulates or is untrue. 



Knag. A knot in wood, or a protuberant knot, having the same 

 meaning as " Snag " (which see). 



Knee. A piece of timber formed with an angle in the shape 

 of the human knee when bent. 



Knee-rafter or Knee-piece. A rafter for the principal truss of a 

 roof, the lower end or foot of which is crooked downwards, so 

 that it may rest more firmly on the walls. Otherwise an 

 angular piece of timber to which other pieces of timber are 

 fastened. Ships have a number of knees " beam-knees," 

 " head-knees," " carling knees," etc. 



Knife. A cutting instrument with a sharp edge, used in almost 

 every trade ; in that of wood it is somewhat obscured by the 

 use of the term " iron " as in " plane-iron ' : but if a like 

 " iron " is fixed, or forms part of a machine, it comes to its 

 own, as in " knife-veneer-cutting machines," rotary or hori- 

 zontal. See " Veneer." The lath-splitter's tools are 

 " riving-knives," and a " circular-saw-guard," in the rear of 

 the saw, is adopting the same term. 



Knife Veneers. Veneers cut with a machine knife ; " fixed-knife " 

 in the instance of the wood moving on a horizontal bed ; 

 "moving " in the rotary veneer cutting or peeling machines ; 





