four-by-two

She knew that from the firearms course they had sent her on immediately war was declared, where she had learned about four-by-two and the armourer's hooked tool.

Bottled Spider Gardner, John 2002

Sniggers because you get four-by-two from the armourer who has a hooked tool for getting broken pull-th roughs out of the barrel.

Bottled Spider Gardner, John 2002

Traffic drove on the left side of the street, mainly taxis and trams, some rickshaws running doctors to the hospital around a stationary line of army trucks, four-by-two Toyotas that were really Chevrolets in disguise.

December 6 Smith, Martin Cruz 2002

They would be allowed one hour of excercise a day in isolated four-by-two metre cages in a yard outside the prison.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

The radiologist reported two anomalies to the doctor: an “ill-defined density” in the subareola region and an enlarged lymph node or nodes, measuring four-by-two centimeters, in the right axilla armpit.

Law In The Health and Human Services Donald T. Dickson 1995

It must have been a piece of four-by-two or the end foot or so of an oar.

Bravo-Two-Zero McNab, Andy 1993

You'll be telling me next that I just stepped ashore, grabbed the first passer-by I saw, hit him in the face with a four-by-two then dragged him up here inventing this tale as I went.

When Eight Bells Toll MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1966

Measuring just four-by-two inches, the rather flat tissue packet rises larger than life.

The Online Citizen 2008

*orannia decides to screw subtly and be as obvious as a piece of four-by-two wood*

It's Alive... orannia 2009

The one timber term everyone knew, the four-by-two, perversely called a two-by-four by Americans, seems not to be replaced by a widely known term.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 1 1987