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Paper Wood. Round whitewood timber, cut to short lengths, 

 for the manufacture of wood pulp for paper making. 



Parget and Pargetter. Obsolete terms in architecture, for which 

 we may now read "plaster and plasterer"; the latter 

 obscures the still older English trade names of " daub and 

 dauber." " Parget " appears to have reached us from 

 Spanish sources, possibly from art workmen being imported 

 in Tudor times. " Parget- work " of an ornamental char- 

 acter for inside and outside decoration, especially of half- 

 timber buildings, occupied an important position in the 

 clay of Queen Elizabeth, examples of which remain. It is 

 only now known as rough-work in chimney-flues. 



Parquet. Flooring made in geometrical designs with coloured 

 hardwoods. 



Parting Bead. A slip inserted into the centre of the pulley stiles 

 of a window, to keep apart the upper and lower sashes. 

 See " Sash Window." 



Parting Slip. Properly a " lath of wood " fixed at its head only 

 in the box of a sash-frame to keep the " sash- weight " (which 

 see) apart when the casements are working. See " Sash 

 Window." 



Patten-sole. A wooden sole mounted on an iron ring to raise 

 it above the wet ground. It is distinct from the " clog- 

 sole " (ivhich see], although wrought in the same class of 

 wood, inasmuch as it is not intended to be used in direct 

 touch with the ground. 



Pavers, Setts or Road-pavers. Usually the " paving-stones " 

 or " cubes " of roadways ; occasionally extended as " floor- 

 pavers," " floor-tiles." The term " paving-setts " seems to 

 refer more to number of cubes than to their ultimate purpose. 

 See " Tile." 



Paving Block Cross Cut. A machine having a number of saws 

 equally spaced. These saws have a rising and falling motion, 

 cutting the wood blocks into suitable lengths. In some cases 

 the sliding motion is horizontal, or even the saws are attached 

 to a swinging arm. 



Pear Tree (Pyrus communis). Its wood is similar in its properties 

 to the apple tree and used for the same purposes, but some- 

 times preferred to it, being very slightly superior in quality. 



Pedestal. (1 ) In architecture, the base or foot of a column or 

 statue on which the upright work stands ; (2) in machinery, 

 a pillow block. 



Peel and Peeling. In the wood trade to remove the bark or outer 

 covering of a tree. These terms have of late attached 



