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| MBF- |
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Abbreviation for "thousand board feet." |
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| Milling in Transit
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A
privilege extended to rail shipments whereby carload shipments of lumber moves
from the sawmills into a moulding and millwork plant for remanufacture.
The rate is established on the basis from sawmill to final destination and is
subject to MIT charges and weight losses due to manufacture. |
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| Millwork (woodwork)- |
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Products primarily manufactures from lumber in a planning mill or
woodworking plant. Includes mouldings, door frames and entrances, blinds
and shutters, sash and window units, doors, stair-work, kitchen cabinets,
mantels, china or corner cabinets and porch work. |
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Packaged Millwork-
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The wrapping or
packaging of items of millwork; "packaged trim." May be in paper cartons or
shrink wrapped in plastic film. |
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Specialty Millwork
(architectural millwork)- |
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millwork
manufactured by special order to suit a particular job. |
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Stock Millwork- |
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Millwork
manufactured in a standard size, pattern and layout, readily available from a
distributor's inventory and ready for installation. |
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| Millwork Estimate- |
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The
number, sizes, types and cost of millwork items required for a construction job
or structure. |
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| Mirror Moulding- |
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A
moulding applied to provide a frame for and to secure a mirror. |
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| Miter Box- |
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A tool,
often fitted with a back saw, which is used to cut accurate angles for tight
fitting miter joints. |
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| Moisture Content- |
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The
weight of the water in wood expressed in percentage of the weight of the
oven-dry wood. |
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| Moulded- |
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Worked
into a form of shape and referring to a wood member other than those "surfaced
four sides." |
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| Moulder (sticker)- |
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A
woodworking machine designed to run mouldings and other wood members with
regular or irregular profiles. |
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| Moulding Lumber- |
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This
usually consists of C and Better, Moulding and Better Grades which are used in
the manufacture of clear, solid mouldings and jambs with minimum waste.
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| Moulding Series- |
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Mouldings of a certain pattern and size to which individual
numbers have been assigned. |
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| Mullion Casing- |
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| The strip which is applied
over the window jambs in a multiple opening window. Sometimes called a
panel strip, used for decorative wall treatments. |
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