Definition of "timberwork" []

• A structure made with timbers, as the framework of a boat or house. (noun)

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• "After fifteen months, however, it was found, having been secreted in a hole under the timberwork of a Paris garret."
• "Then it will be a process of getting down there in the guts, if you like, of that framework and see whether the timberwork there has been warped, whether the shape of the ship has changed."
• "So the sources we used for the reconstruction are written sources and illustrations, combined with an overall knowledge of medieval craftsmanship -- the metalwork and different types of joints in the timberwork."