Dirge of the Munser, 1591; the Distribution of Woodland, 1600-1800; timber in industrial processes, the timber trade in the seventeenth century, the timber trade in the eighteenth century, the price of timber and timberworkers wages, the timber merchants, the era of private planting, state planting, wood acreages in the mid-seventeenth century; ships employed in the trade of ireland, 1753, charcoal-burning ironworks, 1600-1800, glossary of timber trade terms. Balk. Roughly squared large pieces of timber used for beams, etc. and measuring between 11 and 2oin square. Clapboards. Also called cleftboard or weatherboard. FAn-shaped pieces of wood used for roofing or shingling. Compass and knee timber. Large pieces tieh a pronounced bend, which could be used in ship construction. Because of their shape the cost of transportation was high. The most suitable trees for this type of timber grew in hedgerows ot in open woods where the branches had room to spread. Deals. The term was first applied to softwood imported from the Baltic. While the size of deals varied it lay between certain limits: in the eighteenth century a standard deal was 12ft long, 11in wide, and 11/2 in thick, but Christiana deals were between 10 and 12ft long and 3in thick. A load of Danzing deals was 50 cubis ft.
