1.  Work executed in timber; the wooden part of any structure.

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1390.  Gower, Conf., II. 200. A wilde fyr … They caste among the timberwerk.

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c. 1470.  Henry, Wallace, VIII. 617. The temir werk thai brynt wp all in playn.

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1574–5.  Reg. Privy Council Scot., II. 432. Amendiment of the ruif and tymmer werk of thair … parroche kirk.

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1703.  T. N., City & C. Purchaser, 215. Window-frames … Friezes, and Cornishes, and all other Timber-works that are expos’d to the Weather.

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1864.  A. McKay, Hist. Kilmarnock (1880), 255. The inner roof [is composed] of open, oak-varnished timber-work.

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  fig.  1594.  T. B., La Primaud. Fr. Acad., II. Seneca. The bones as it were the frame and timberworke of mans body.

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  2.  pl. An establishment where timber is prepared or worked up.

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1875.  W. M‘Ilwraith, Guide to Wigtownshire, 94. Here are extensive timber-works.

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