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timber-spec Slang, Obs. 
n. the risks of being in the lumbering business.
- 1845 . . . our neighbour, the embarrassed lumber-man, who was still wooden-headed enough to like anything of the timber-spec, got out the frame by contract, himself giving most generously five pounds' worth of work towards it.
- 1845 . . . our neighbour, the embarrassed lumber-man, who was still wooden-headed enough to like anything of the timber-spec, got out the frame by contract, himself giving most generously five pounds' worth of work towards it.