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S: (n) lumber, timber (the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material)

S: (n) stock (lumber used in the construction of something) "they will cut round stock to 1-inch diameter"
S: (n) strip (thin piece of wood or metal)

S: (n) batten (a strip fixed to something to hold it firm)
S: (n) cleat (a strip of wood or metal used to strengthen the surface to which it is attached)
S: (n) fingerboard (a narrow strip of wood on the neck of some stringed instruments (violin or cello or guitar etc) where the strings are held against the wood with the fingers)
S: (n) furring strip, furring (strip used to give a level surface for attaching wallboard)
S: (n) jackstraw, spillikin (a thin strip of wood used in playing the game of jackstraws)
S: (n) picket, pale (a wooden strip forming part of a fence)
S: (n) slat, spline (a thin strip (wood or metal))

S: (n) lath (a narrow thin strip of wood used as backing for plaster or to make latticework)
S: (n) louver, louvre, fin (one of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain)
S: (n) splat (a slat of wood in the middle of the back of a straight chair)
S: (n) stave, lag (one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket)

S: (n) spline (a flexible strip (wood or rubber) used in drawing curved lines)
S: (n) toothpick (pick consisting of a small strip of wood or plastic; used to pick food from between the teeth)

S: (n) board, plank (a stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of sizes and used for many purposes)

S: (n) matchboard (a board that has a groove cut into one edge and a tongue cut into the other so they fit tightly together (as in a floor))
S: (n) skid (one of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects)
S: (n) wale, strake (thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship)

S: (n) garboard, garboard plank, garboard strake (the first wale laid next to the keel of a wooden ship)
S: (n) gunwale, gunnel, gun rest (wale at the top of the side of boat; topmost planking of a wooden vessel)

S: (n) chipboard, hardboard (a cheap hard material made from wood chips that are pressed together and bound with synthetic resin)
S: (n) deal (a plank of softwood (fir or pine board))

S: (v) lumber, pound (move heavily or clumsily) "The heavy man lumbered across the room"

S: (v) walk (use one's feet to advance; advance by steps) "Walk, don't run!"; "We walked instead of driving"; "She walks with a slight limp"; "The patient cannot walk yet"; "Walk over to the cabinet"