board foot

noun

: a unit of quantity for lumber equal to the volume of a board 12 × 12 × 1 inches

—abbreviation bd ft

Examples of board foot in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Lumber’s price drop has been particularly dramatic in just the last 90 days in the futures market, with contract prices for July falling 28% to $466 per thousand board feet (futures prices are around $100 above spot prices due to a delivery fee). —

Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 30 June 2024 Timber harvests in national forests, for example, plunged, from roughly 11 billion to roughly three billion board feet per year in the 1990s alone. —

Francis Fukuyama, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2014 Spot lumber prices have plummeted 75% from their May 2021 record high of $1,514 per thousand board feet to just $366 this week, roughly matching pre-pandemic levels, according to Random Lengths’ Framing Lumber Composite Price Index. —

Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 30 June 2024 Montgomery Parks Urban Forester Patrick Harwood said the sale raised $45,000 for the agency last year, when about 500 customers purchased approximately 20,000 board feet of lumber. —

Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023 See all Example Sentences for board foot

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