a. Also 7, 9 wany, 7 wainny, waynny, 9 wainy. [f. WANE sb.1 + -Y.] Of unsquared or imperfectly squared timber: Having wanes (see WANE sb.1 3) or natural bevels at the angles. Hence, of an angle or edge: consisting of wane.
1662. Atwell, Faithf. Surveyour, 132. When they do hew any timber, they leave it so wany, that … they leave it nearer round then square.
1679. Moxon, Mech. Exerc., viii. 140. The Girders … prove commonly somewhat Wainny upon their upper sides.
1860. Builder, 21 Jan., 46/2. I have found a difference … of from five to twenty-five per cent., according as timber was squared or wany.
1876. Act 39 & 40 Vict., c. 80 § 24. Any square, round, waney, or other timber.
1878. Encycl. Brit., IV. 773/2. The pine prepared for exportation is made into squared timber…; or into waney timber (as it is called when only partially squared or flatted).
1888. Burt, Stand. Timber Meas., 237. The chord of the defective angle, or waney edge.
In fig. context. 1837. Haliburton, Clockm., Ser. I. v. 34. As hard at the heart as a log of elm; howsomever, said a third, I hope it wont be long afore he has the wainy edge scored off of him, any how.
Hence Waneyness.
1679. Moxon, Mech. Exerc., viii. 140. The Joysts … strengthen their Bearing by so much as they project over the Roundness or Waynniness of the upper side of the Girder.
