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contracts a clause is inserted that " Lengths be cut in metric 

 feet, thicknesses and breadths in English measure." Taking 

 the metre as 3'2S09 ft., a metric foot is one-third, i.e., a 

 little over 13 in., and the wood is adjusted accordingly to 

 comply with Continental demands. 



Middle Cuts. Lengths cut from the middle of the tree or log. 



Middling. A term vised in connection with wood-goods, of middle 

 rank or quality; for instance, in Danzig timber, "best," 

 " good middling " and " common middling." 



Mill Culls. An American expression for the poorest quality of 

 wood produced, practically refuse. 



Mill Run. The product as classified by the particular mill. In 

 America all saleable timber which the log makes and which 

 is sold without being sorted. 



Mill Webs. Straight saws employed in sawing machines with a 

 reciprocating motion. 



Mille (Latin milk, a thousand ). Used in the " stave " and 

 " Welsh-slate " trades to imply " twelve hundred " ; those 

 trades retaining the now nearly obsolete Teutonic " long- 

 hundred " of six-score, against the more popular five-score. 

 See " Stave " notes and " Slate " notes. 



Millwright. Properly a wright or artificer in wood, who made 

 or constructed mills ; the term has of late extended to 

 " smiths " or " workers in iron," who should, to be exact, 

 be called "mill-smiths." 



Mitre. A junction, usually at an angle acute or obtuse ; the line 

 formed by the meeting of mouldings or other surfaces, which 

 intersect or intercept each other as an angle. 



Mitre-block. A wrought block of wood usually of hard texture, 

 rebated as the seat of wood to be operated upon or cut into 

 mitre form practically a "saw-guide." See ''Mitre- 

 plane." 



Mitre-plane. A special hand-plane made to traverse on its side, 

 and true or plane the mitres as they come from the saw. 



Monger. A trader ; a dealer ; chiefly used in composition, as 

 ironmonger ; cheesemonger ; and fishmonger ; of this type 

 the wood-dealer was until a century or more back, when he 

 honoured the call of " wood-monger " (ivhich see). 



Monkey. The hammer of a piledriver. Known also as " Ram." 



Montants. The intermediate stiles in a piece of framing which 

 are tenoned into the rails. Variantly called mountins. 



Mora (Dimorphandra excelsa).A dense, strong wood imported 

 from Guiana and Trinidad, chestnut brown or red in colour. 



