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What (who) is lumber yard - definition

LOCATION WHERE LUMBER AND WOOD-RELATED PRODUCTS ARE PROCESSED OR STORED
Lumberyard
  • Frank A. Jagger loads his boat full of lumber at the [[Albany Lumber District]] in [[Albany, New York]] in the 1870s
  • A lumber yard sorting table in [[Falls City, Oregon]]
  • Helsinki, Finland]] in the 1950s

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A lumber yard is a location where lumber and wood-related products used in construction and/or home improvement projects are processed or stored. Some lumber yards offer retail sales to consumers, and some of these may also provide services such as the use of planers, saws and other large machines.
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also lumber yard (lumberyards)
A lumberyard is a place where wood is stored and sold. (AM; in BRIT, use timber yard
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Lumber yard

A lumber yard is a location where lumber and wood-related products used in construction and/or home improvement projects are processed or stored. Some lumber yards offer retail sales to consumers, and some of these may also provide services such as the use of planers, saws and other large machines.

Generally, timber yards are locations where raw logs and other wood or forest products are processed and stored. The terms "lumber yard" and "timber yard" are sometimes used interchangeably, and timber yards may include additional aspects that lumber yards encompass, and vice versa.

Examples of use of lumber yard
1. He worked in a lumber yard and drove a freight truck.
2. A single round trip to his job at a lumber yard costs 10 million Zimbabwean dollars, nearly a week‘s salary.
3. "Then today, they said I should try to out run Tic Tic, the lumber–yard dog," the teen says.
4. Chitau arrives at his lumber yard at 7:13 a.m., after 166 minutes of nearly continuous walking.
5. Tuesday, forced her to run several blocks to a lumber yard as he followed and then forced her into a white van.