List of timber framing tools. Illustration of carpentry (charpente) in the French EncyclopÃ©die showing hewing, mortising, pit sawing on trestles. Tools include dividers, axes, chisel and mallet, beam cart, pit saw, trestles, and bisaigue . The men talking may be holding a story pole and rule (or walking cane). Shear legs are hoisting a timber. Below, the sticks on the log are winding sticks used to align the ends of a timber.
The problem of plastics. 1  Plastic is a polymeric materialâthat is, a material whose molecules are very large, often resembling long chains made up of a seemingly endless series of interconnected links.
Flack vs. flak. A flack is a personâespecially a press agent or publicistâwho talks up his or her employer and deflects criticism. Flak (usually a mass noun) refers to (1) antiaircraft artillery, and (2) excessive or abusive criticism (the second definition derives metaphorically from the first).