board measure
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of board measure
First recorded in 1650–60
Example Sentences
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The ruling didn’t affect the October 2023 election board measure, which hadn’t been implemented, blocked by a separate trial court decision.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2025
In building materials and construction, we should have to abandon the board measure and substitute square decimeters, centares or ares.
From Time Magazine Archive
The American nation is not suffering for the dollars that those lovely forest giants would fetch by board measure.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by William Temple Hornaday
Next estimate the number of thousands of feet board measure of forms required to encase the concrete to be placed in a day.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette
He then questioned me in regard to my knowledge of book-keeping and arithmetic, and wanted to know if I understood board measure, and could read lumber marks.
From Desk and Debit or, The Catastrophes of a Clerk by Oliver Optic
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