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- noun Plural form of
timberyard .
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Examples
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The Jellyfish theatre, which opens next week, is being built from the detritus of markets, timberyards and building sites; from redundant school furniture, hand-me-down front doors, recycled nails and pretty much anything that local residents and businesses have contributed? prompted by a public appeal by the Red Room film and theatre company.
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Angelina, of course, had not been allowed to go to the dockyards and timberyards.
The Shadow Of The Lion Lackey, Mercedes 2002
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There were no camels; the government elephants had steady employment out at MacGregor's timberyards and could not get leave of absence; while rickshaws were out of fashion, as only natives and Chinamen rode in them.
Parrot & Co. Harold MacGrath 1901
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He had seen his fellow elephants die of cold and epilepsy and starvation and sunstroke up at a place called Ali Musjid, ten years later; and afterward he had been sent down thousands of miles south to haul and pile big balks of teak in the timberyards at Moulmein.
The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900
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