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Padouk (Pterocarpus indicus}. A hard wood found in Burmah, 

 Siam and the Andaman Islands. In use for furniture and 

 decorative purposes 



Pale =a narrow piece of wood. Otherwise a "lag" (which 

 see), used in the boarding of fence-rails, open or close order. 

 It is the Latin " palus " which coincides with the English 

 " pole " and " pale," giving " palisade," " pale-fencing " 

 and the plural form " paling." 



Paling. A row of pales, pickets or stakes fastened together. 

 Also a vertical object or figure, as in heraldry. 



Pan. A piece of timber used in a building, otherwise called a 

 wall-plate. 



Pane. (1 ) The hewn or sawn surface of the log in sided timber. 

 (2) Implying a " panel," as in " post and pane " walls, 

 i.e. timber posts and stone, brick and plaster panels. 



Panel. A piece of board, whose edges are inserted in a frame. 

 The short of this, especially in old half-timber buildings, 

 is " pane " and " pan ' : hence " post and pan," a wall 

 of post and panel. 



Panel Planing Machines. Machines for planing wide boards 

 and panels, sometimes called Thicknessing Machines as 

 they reduce the wood to a uniform thickness. The wood 

 is passed under a revolving cutter head by means of feed 

 rollers, which are fitted both in front and at the back of 

 the cutters. 



Panel Raising Machines. A machine for forming raised panels, 

 generally consisting of a horizontal spindle fitted with suit- 

 able cutters. The panels are gripped in a carriage working 

 on a slide extending along the table of the machine, the 

 slide acting as a guide for the material as it is passed over 

 the cutters. 



Panelling. In architecture (1) the operation of covering or orna- 

 menting with panels. (2) Panelled work, i.e. formed with 

 panels. See " Panel." 



Panels. Thin boards used for filling in strong framing, as in doors, 

 shutters, etc. 



Pantile. A tile in the form of a parallelogram, straight in the 

 direction of its length, but with a waved surface trans- 

 versely, usually about 13| in. X 7 in. x i in. It has a 

 small tongue or projection to hook to the lath. The ridge 

 and hips of roofs covered with pan or plain tiles are 

 finished with large concave tiles, called hip or ridge tiles. 

 See "Tile." 



