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made for " housing " the edge of a door. Like all planes 

 in Europe, except it may be a " cooper' s-stave-plane," it is, 

 unlike the Asiatic or Japanese plane, worked by a push 

 action. See " Rebate " and " Shiplap Joint." 



Reciprocating Cross-cutting Machine. A machine used for cross- 

 cutting logs into lengths by means of a saw blade having a 

 reciprocating motion, impelled either by a connecting rod 

 and crank, or by means of steam acting directly on to a 

 piston, the rod of which is attached to the slide carrying the 

 saw. 



Reciprocating Saw. A saw moving alternately backward and 

 forward or up and down. 



Red Cedar. See " Pencil Cedar." 



Red Gum or Gum-WOOd. A term now practically confined to 

 America, but represented in Europe by " satin- walnut " 

 and " hazel-pine " (which see). The name is also given to 

 a Western Australia wood. 



Red Heart in pitchpine is the result of a fungous disease which 

 in a certain stage of progress affects the quality of fibre of 

 the wood and its strength. 



Red Oak. The red oak (Q. rubra) is a native of the States and 

 Canada ; remarkably porous in its character, so much so 

 that it is the favourite wood of " spile-peg " makers. Known 

 also as brown oak. See " American Oaks." 



Red Pine, Canadian (Pinus resinosa). Called in Canada and 

 the States " Norway Pine." A hard resinous wood not 

 unlike Scots fir. 



Red -rot. A defect in the heartwood of a tree, which may be 

 sometimes discovered by the presence of fungi at the base, 

 or by tapping the trunk, when a hollow sound is emitted. 



Redwood (Sequoia). See " Californian Redwood." 

 Reed or Reeding. Small convex moulding. A " reed- moulding " 

 is half a circle in section, and such mouldings when worked 

 in the flutes of columns become ovolos; such "reeds" are 

 occasionally placed side by side until a broad space is formed, 

 instance in sets of architraves, in which case they are said to 

 be " reeded- architraves " or to be " reeded." See " Flutings." 



Refinery Poles. Oak poles of small girth which are burnt in 

 furnaces for refining copper and other metals. 



Reglet. A small moulding rectangular in its section, a fillet or 

 lintel. 



Regulars. A Canadian term, applied to pine 12-16 ft. long, 

 3 in. x 11 in., and to spruce 12 ft. and upwards long, 7, 9 

 and 11 in. 



