0 a thin layer of decorative wood or plastic used to cover a cheaper material:
1 a thin layer of decorative wood or other material used to cover a cheaper or less attractive material:
In addition, the forest sectors produced such value-added products as veneers, woodchips, and furniture products.
In each formation, the ignimbrite veneers locally grade laterally into more restricted valley-fills (predominantly of pumiceous massive lapilli-tuff facies) within small palaeo-wadis.
The lower parts of the walls were generally panelled or veneered with slabs of marble in white and colours.
Usually floodplains are not veneers of alluvium explicable by lateral channel movements, but considerable thicknesses smoothing over more complex relief.
Many of our modern reefs may be interglacial reefs, karstified during low glacial sea levels and now veneered with a capping of modern coral.
In the case of sliced veneers a baulk of timber is clamped and slices are peeled off it by a machine very like a large plane.
However, when the surface veneers dry, as in the hot sun, they are subjected to cross-grain tension and may thus" check", that is produce a large number of small cracks.
Moreover, in woodworking, thinner veneers expanded the ranges of household and office furniture that could be, at least in part, made from scarce or imported hardwoods.
