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Flat-Grained Lumber


Lumber that has been sawed in a plane approximately perpendicular to a radius of the log. Lumber is considered flat grained when the annual growth rings make an angle of less than 45 degrees with the surface of the piece.

A term common to wooden boat design and construction.