What is "timbers"

Usage examples of "timbers".

We were crossing an old trestle bridge, a rock canyon below and the tyres thudding on heavy timbers that were loose and greasy with age.

Galeth lined the stone up with the hole and kept the men hauling until the tip of the sledge just overhung the ramp that Saban had lined with three smoothed timbers that had been greased with pig fat to serve as a slide.

Galeth had broken up the great sledges and put their huge timbers in the piles.

The fires were roaring now, the great timbers at their heart burning bright so that the smoke made a red-tinged pall above the temple.

She staggered as she landed, her balance upset by the gale and the black timbers that shattered under her feet, and then she fell against the cliff face and Saban saw a last eddy of smoke and suddenly there was no fire.

Once the timbers were jointed to the hulls, they were lashed tight with the long strips of hide.

The men sweated, but inched onwards until the great stone was poised above the square timbers that spanned the three hulls.

But however he lifted the stone he knew he would need a sledge that was three times bigger than any he had made before, and he decided the sledge must be made in Cathallo from oak timbers that he would place in a long and narrow hut so that the timber could season.

He would let the timbers dry for a year or more and in that time he would worry at the problem of how to lift the stone.

He had cut and shaped the big sledge runners, and those timbers had seasoned in Cathallo, but he had not dared try to move the gigantic stones.

Saban called, and the ox teams were goaded a last time and the stone shifted another fraction and then its own weight took over and the pillar thumped upright, its leading edge smashing into the protective timbers with a sickening crash.

It slid from its rollers, rammed into the facing timbers and a great crack showed in the stone, running diagonally up its face.

Saban ordered the slaves to lay an oblong of timbers all about the sledge so that when they were done it seemed as though the long stone rested on a platform of wood.

The slaves now used oak levers to raise one end of the capstone and Saban shoved a long timber underneath it, crosswise to the timbers in the bottom layer.

More timbers were brought and laid all about the two supporting beams until, once again, the stone appeared to be resting on a platform, and then the stone was levered up again and propped on two blocks of wood.