1 gen 1671 anni - season

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To keep timber after it has been cut so that it might dry out and harden. Examples of the word date only from the 1600s but the practice is much older: 1529 <i>also tymbre lying drye for the use of husbandrie</i>, Ingmanthorpe (SS79/277); 1617 <i>2 oake boards well seasoned beinge 8 foet longe and 11 inche broad to make up my new barne doers with</i>, Brandsby (NYRO44/139); 1642 <i>A Sweathrake hath usually xxxiiij teeth ... of yron, the heade of seasoned Ash and the shafte usually of saugh, </i>Elmswell (DW53); 1671 <i>found 2 boards neare fower yards long, foot broad and about 12 years seasoning in a chamber of an out-house</i>, Kimberworth (QS1/9).

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