Outside were Golgotha sounds of strong men digging holes for upright timbers in hard, hard ground.
The ladder was simply an upright timber that had had crosspieces pegged on, leading down to a foot-wide horizontal beam.
All I had to do was mount the solar panel on an upright timber facing south, clamp the solenoid to the switch arm and the switch.
King pendant: A central, upright timber in a truss projecting below the lowest beam, "normally used with scissor beams".
In archaeology, a postpipe (or post pipe) is the term given to the remains of an upright timber placed in a posthole.
Traditionally, the stem was an upright timber or metal bar into which side planks or plates were joined.
He poked it between two upright timbers of the main wall.
The current had wedged the stern of the craft between two upright timbers, and it rested motionless on the water.
The ledgers are sprung into each upright timber (stud) through a system of augered holes on one side and short chiseled grooves along the other.
Archeological investigations show that there were once circular timber structures (or rings of upright timbers) inside the enclosure.