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Maiden Wood is a term principally associated with ash-trees. 

 One young and fairly endowed with full meed of elasticity 

 is termed " a maiden ash " : by the side of an older or fully 

 developed tree it may be said to be in the company of its 

 mother, for all trees, poetically and otherwise, are of the 

 feminine gender. See " Ash." See " Stool and Stooled." 



Main Tram Pieces. See " Solebars." 



Mall or Maul. -A wooden hammer, a variant of which is " beetle " 

 and "mallet" (ivhich see; also "Plank, Deal, or Board 

 Stower"). 



Mallet. A wooden hammer, originally a military weapon of 

 known but now varied size : it is another term for " beetle " 

 and " mall " or " maul " (ivhich see}. 



Malodorous Woods. Or woods which in a converted form 

 emit offensive odours. An example of this class is the round 

 (so called) mahogany, shipped from Gaboon in West Africa. 

 A mill-man sawing such wood is apt to endow it with an 

 Anglicized form of a well-known but unidentified Biblical 

 wood. The nomenclature of wood, in and belonging to 

 America, is expressive on this point, instance : " Fetid 

 Buckeye," " Fetid Yew," " Stinking Ash," " Stinking 

 Cedar," etc. This, if a shortcoming in Nature, is there 

 counterbalanced by a number of sweet and " ocloriferus 

 woods " (which see). 



Mandrel. See " Saw Arbor." 



Mangle Rollers. Maple, sycamore, and lignum vitas, cut to the 

 desired lengths out of quartered wood and into octagonal 

 blocks of regulated size, for the wringing machine industry, 

 an important market for which is Keighley in Yorkshire. 



Manifest. A ship's document, being a detailed statement of a 

 cargo of goods, imported or laden for export, to be exhibited 

 at the custom-house by the master of the vessel or the owner 

 or shipper. 



Mansard Roof. A roof formed with an upper and under set of 

 rafters on each side, the under set less and the upper more 

 inclined to the horizon. It is a favourite French form, 

 taking its name from FraiiQois Mansard, said to be its inven- 

 tor. It is variantly called a " curb-roof," from the double 

 inclination of its sides. 



Mantel-piece. A modern " fire-place " fitment that grew out 

 of the older " mantel-tree " and " mantel-shelf " (ivhich see) 

 ditto " Over-mantel." 



Mantel-shelf. A domestic shelf of prime importance fixed on 

 the "mantel-tree" (which see) when those beams wore low, 



