season

1) 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 also tymbre lying drye for the use of husbandrie, Ingmanthorpe

1617 2 oake boards well seasoned beinge 8 foet longe and 11 inche broad to make up my new barne doers with, Brandsby

1642 A Sweathrake hath usually xxxiiij teeth ... of yron, the heade of seasoned Ash and the shafte usually of saugh, Elmswell

1671 found 2 boards neare fower yards long, foot broad and about 12 years seasoning in a chamber of an out-house, Kimberworth.

dates 1529 1617 1642 1671

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