Category: Glossary of Terms -E

An assembly made by bonding layers of veneer or lumber with an adhesive so that most adjacent layers have their grains going in perpendicular directions to increase dimensional stability.

Boards expand when they heat up and contract when they cool down. This must be accounted for when spacing deck boards.

When the level of moisture in a board is equal to the moisture in the surrounding air. The moisture content at which wood neither gains nor loses moisture when surrounded by air at a given relative humidity and temperature.

Edge (vertical) Grain

Eased Edges

Smoothing and squaring the edge of a board so that it can be glued up evenly to another piece.

Lumber sawed parallel with the pith of the log and approximately at right angles to the growth rings; that is, the rings form an angle of 45 degrees or more with the wide face if the piece.

Veneer that usually has an adhesive to stick to plywood edging.

The narrow face of a rectangular-shaped piece of lumber.

Complex ecological community and environment forming a functional whole in nature.