board foot
noun
: a unit of quantity for lumber equal to the volume of a board 12 × 12 × 1 inches
—abbreviation bd ft
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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.
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Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
The 2 million board feet of wood were treated with metallic salts as a fire retardant.
—Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
Last June, ferocious winds blew down over 12 million board feet, the unit measurement of lumber, mostly pine, which threw off the harvesting schedule.
—Cara Buckley Jamie Kelter Davis, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
Annually, the Menominee aim to fell between 22 million and 25 million board feet, but in recent years have managed to cut only between nine million and 12 million board feet, according to Mr. Skenadore.
—Cara Buckley Jamie Kelter Davis, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
The Giant Dipper Roller Coaster was originally built in 1925, and its restoration in the early 1990s included all new tracks, thousands of board feet of lumber, and two new trains with modern restraint systems.
—Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 17 Feb. 2023
That's the lowest point for lumber this year – but still higher than the 2020 high of $400 per board foot.
—Terry Collins, USA TODAY, 6 June 2022
The prediction is, next year the price will be as high as $1,516.96 per board foot.
—Mia Taylor, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Dec. 2021
Prices have eased a bit in recent weeks but remain high: Lumber futures contracts were trading at $797 per board foot at the end of June — 84.7 percent higher than a year earlier and roughly double the June 2019 price.
—BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2021
Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
The 2 million board feet of wood were treated with metallic salts as a fire retardant.
—Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
Last June, ferocious winds blew down over 12 million board feet, the unit measurement of lumber, mostly pine, which threw off the harvesting schedule.
—Cara Buckley Jamie Kelter Davis, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
Annually, the Menominee aim to fell between 22 million and 25 million board feet, but in recent years have managed to cut only between nine million and 12 million board feet, according to Mr. Skenadore.
—Cara Buckley Jamie Kelter Davis, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
The Giant Dipper Roller Coaster was originally built in 1925, and its restoration in the early 1990s included all new tracks, thousands of board feet of lumber, and two new trains with modern restraint systems.
—Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 17 Feb. 2023
That's the lowest point for lumber this year – but still higher than the 2020 high of $400 per board foot.
—Terry Collins, USA TODAY, 6 June 2022
The prediction is, next year the price will be as high as $1,516.96 per board foot.
—Mia Taylor, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Dec. 2021
Prices have eased a bit in recent weeks but remain high: Lumber futures contracts were trading at $797 per board foot at the end of June — 84.7 percent higher than a year earlier and roughly double the June 2019 price.
—BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2021
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