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"word": "dimensional lumber"
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"text": "Here they live by fishing on the most plentiful coasts in the world; there they fell trees, by the sides of large rivers, for masts and lumber […].",
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"text": "4 December 1883, Chester A. Arthur, Third State of the Union Address\nThe resources of Alaska, especially in fur, mines, and lumber, are considerable in extent and capable of large development, while its geographical situation is one of political and commercial importance.;"
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"sense": "wood as building material",
"word": "木料"
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"word": "bois de charpente"
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"sense": "wood as building material",
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"sense": "wood as building material",
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"sense": "wood as building material",
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"roman": "zaimoku",
"sense": "wood as building material",
"word": "材木"
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"sense": "wood as building material",
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"sense": "wood as building material",
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"word": "madera aserrada"
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"sense": "wood as building material",
"word": "kalap"
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"ref": "1783, William Cowper, letter, 10 November",
"text": "We made all haste down stairs, and soon threw open the street door, for the reception of as much lumber, of all sorts, as our house would hold, brought into it by several who thought it necessary to move their furniture."
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"text": "a. 1746, Lady Grisell Baillie Murray, Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie\nThey put all the little plate they had […] in the lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came."
}
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"ref": "1677, Thomas Rymer, The Tragedies of the Last Age Consider'd",
"text": "so much stuff lumberd together",
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