Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Cut or planed in a mill or by mechanical power: said of stones, marble, etc., but more especially of boards, planks, clapboards, and the like, used for house-building. Also
mill-planed .
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There was no carpet on the floor; the walls were made of mill-dressed boards which had cracked with the dryness and smelt of turpentine.
Prescott of Saskatchewan Harold Bindloss 1905
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