lumber
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1.8
- noun
- /ˈlʌmbər/
- US
:
madera aserrada
- It's from the finest lumber our mills can supply.
- treated lumber
- softwood lumber
- dimensional lumber
It's been straight down for lumber prices over the last four months.
- It's been straight down for lumber prices over the last four months.
- And I saw rafters with a pile of junk lumber on top of the rafters.
- And so with with modern day treated lumber, you're fine.
- I went to this kind of lumber junkyard kind of thing, found some cool doors.
- I never went for the lowest bid on lumber again.
- Your mood suggests that, hey, well, lumber prices fell.
- What do you what is Canada going to do with its lumber?
- He had a little horse drawn car cart and he had some lumber and some nails and some rope in there.
- So farms open up and become farm stands and trees get turned into lumber and or becomes maybe steel piping.
- The hot housing market helped heat up the lumber market, which in turn made new home prices higher.
- So the tasks are building the lumber rack, building the table, painting, swapping out light fixtures.
- You know, so maybe these are two firms selling lumber to home builders and they know where the home builders job site is.
- If you use treated lumber, you're spending marginally more money for a marginal amount of time.
- It's not, you know, the, the, you know, what are the sweetness of its fruit or the value of its lumber.
Examples
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So I went to my local lumber store and bought a whole bunch of hard Maple boards that I asked them to join plane and cut into smaller pieces.
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We've renovated our own home using our own lumber.
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We lost a lot of the lumber in a fire.
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The houses in my neighborhood are built of lumber that was seasoned before the war.
Fiction book (1992) -
We built shacks from scrap lumber off the old ranch house and barns.
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The contractor used high-quality lumber for the new deck.
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We bought several sheets of lumber to build a garden shed.
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This furniture is made from reclaimed lumber that was salvaged from old houses.
Synonyms
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1.0
The hard material from trees used for building and as fuel
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1.0
A long flat piece of wood used for building or making furniture
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1.7
A long flat piece of wood used in building, like a floor or step
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3.5
Strong wood from trees with wide leaves like oak or maple used for floors and furniture
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1.6
Wood cut and prepared for building, like beams or posts
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7.8
A board of soft wood used in building
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3.5
Reddish, long-lasting wood from a tall California tree used for building and furniture
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3.7
Wood from trees like pine and fir that is softer and easy to cut
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2.5
Wood from pine trees often used to make furniture
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4.3
Wood from a large tree with smooth grey bark used for floors and tool handles
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6.5
Hard pale wood from a beech tree used to make furniture, floors, and tool handles
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6.5
Hard, strong wood from an elm tree used to make furniture and tools
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3.9
A type of wood from cherry trees used for furniture and smoking food
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7.6
Hard light yellow wood from a small evergreen tree used for fine carving and instrument parts
Wood that has a smooth, shiny surface and is ready for building or making furniture
Wood from pine trees that people use for building and furniture
Wood from a birch tree that people use to make furniture and buildings
Wood used to make cabinets and fine furniture
Wood from that tree used for fuel, carving, and building
Compounds
Wood that has a smooth, shiny surface and is ready for building or making furniture
How Processed
Surface Forms
Etymology
Lumber first meant large, heavy pieces of wood and other bulky goods, so picture stacks of boards in a yard. That's why lumber today means 'wood for building'.