He starts by planing the lumber to even the surface, then cuts the wood to size.
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If you are an experienced woodworker, use smaller lumber for a nicer appearance.
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Davis, a boisterous old lumber town, sits at the northern edge of Canaan Valley.
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Workers tossed wooden pallets and scrap lumber into it to keep the flames going.
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The productions sometimes lack the imagination of the opener and lumber instead.
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The trunks and larger branches are harvested to become a lumber of rustic charm.
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But a delay in deliveries of materials, including lumber, put some work on hold.
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Lumber jacks were largely French speaking and used French language institutions.
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Hongxi improved finances by canceling requisitions for lumber, gold, and silver.
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The wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material
Move heavily or clumsily; "The heavy man lumbered across the room"
Baseball bat: an implement used in baseball by the batter
Log: cut lumber, as in woods and forests
Lumber or timber is wood that is used in any of its stages from felling through readiness for use as structural material for construction, or wood pulp for paper production. (The distinction between the two terms is discussed below.)
Wood intended as a building material; Useless things that are stored away; to move clumsily; to load down with things, to fill, to encumber
The product of the sawmill and planing mill not further manufactured other than by sawing, re-sawing, and passing lengthwise through a standard planing machine, crosscutting to length, and matching.
To dream of lumber, denotes many difficult tasks and but little remuneration or pleasure. To see piles of lumber burning, indicates profit from an unexpected source. To dream of sawing lumber, denotes unwise transactions and unhappiness.
Logs which have been sawn, planed, and cut to length.