Broadaxes were commonly used in manufacture of square timbers for wooden shipbuilding, log building, timber framing, and railroad ties sometimes called axe ties.

Built of heavy square timbers bound with black iron straps, they loomed as formidable as the dark stone walls that flanked them.

It was older, too, with large bronze pins about 5ft long sticking out of large square timbers (see Fig 1 ).

The trapdoor was in the center, a slab of the same square timbers, strapped with sheet metal on top and bottom.

To allow the search to continue and expand, engineers were installing a forest of thick, square timbers, jacking them up to support the floors as if in a coal mine.

"It's the look: post and beam, square timbers."

As a result Britain turned to her colonies in North America to supply masts for her ships as well as sawn lumber and square timber.

Using the energy gun from his disabled power suit, clamping it under an improvised chute, Tregare shaped square timbers by having the cut logs pushed through.

Her house, in which she lives, is 20 by 28 feet; built of square timber, with a shingled roof, and a framed stoop.

The railway consisted of a series of piles driven into the ground connected by 12" square timbers upon which set a single rail.