Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A yard or inclosure where wood and timber are stored for sale.

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Examples

  • Rather than cutting down a tree and transporting it from forest to mill to lumber-yard to building site, the house is the tree.

    Mitchell Joachim: Redesign Cities From Scratch Tom Vanderbilt 2008

  • Rather than cutting down a tree and transporting it from forest to mill to lumber-yard to building site, the house is the tree.

    Mitchell Joachim: Redesign Cities From Scratch By Tom Vanderbilt 2008

  • Now the train was passing the elevator, the grim storage - tanks for oil, a creamery, a lumber-yard, a stock-yard muddy and trampled and stinking.

    Main Street 2004

  • The last man was a negro, a tall, shambling, illiterate, nebulous-minded black, who had walked off with an apparently discarded section of lead pipe which he had found in a lumber-yard.

    The Financier 2004

  • In a flare of morning sunlight pouring between two coal-pockets, and because the train had stopped to let a bridge swing and half a dozen great grain and lumber boats go by — a half-dozen in either direction — he saw a group of Irish stevedores idling on the bank of a lumber-yard whose wall skirted the water.

    The Titan 2004

  • Nor did she go to the lumber-yard office when she thought he would be there.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Nor did she go to the lumber-yard office when she thought he would be there.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Nor did she go to the lumber-yard office when she thought he would be there.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Nor did she go to the lumber-yard office when she thought he would be there.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Nor did she go to the lumber-yard office when she thought he would be there.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

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