Thanks for sharing Housewright.
Hey, it's your Maine friend here.

As an English Major in college, I have seen the many-volumed Oxford Dictionary, often called simply, the OED. It's a massive archive indeed.

There is a great book called "The Professor and the Madman" that was a bestseller and chronicles how the OED was actually compiled. It was unprecedented and took decades.

I would think there would be more in there actually on timber related terms...

you have a cool quest going on that shares much of what the OED once faced. I will try to help. I'm actually a collector of old dictionaries/glossaries. I'll look at what I have. By the way, you may want to try the word "glossary" in a search for books of timber-related terms.

Don