lumber

• This is a heavy section of lumber, and I think it is called a boom from the hollow, ringing sound it makes when dashing out the brains of amateur sailors. —  Cobb's Bill-of-Fare
• We then prepared a dozen logs for the foundation of the great raft we were to make of the lumber, and returned to the house I found the soldiers growling at the idea of lugging all the boards and timbers down to the river Don't do it," said I to Mr. Jackson They must do it, or leave them here No, sir, I think not. —  Field and Forest The Fortunes of a Farmer
• While a portion of the troops carted the lumber, the others prepared the foundation of the house. —  Field and Forest The Fortunes of a Farmer
• Cargo--lumber, corrugated iron, and machetes What kind of a country is it?" —  The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X)
• The coaches had fallen into lumber, the spanking teams had each and all made their squalid last journey to the knacker's; and the once famous Gentlemen of the Road had long lain at rest in mother earth's lap--sleeping there none the less peacefully because the necks of many of them had suffered a nasty rick from the hangman's rope, and because the hard-trodden pavement of the prison-yard covered them The fine stables of the White Lion stood tenantless, now, from year's end to year's end. —  The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance

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