board measure

American  

noun

Building Trades.

1. a system of cubic measure in which the unit is the board foot.

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board measure British  

noun

1. a system of units for measuring wood based on the board foot. 1980 board feet equal one standard

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Etymology

Origin of board measure

First recorded in 1650–60

Example Sentences

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board measure

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

At this place the saws cut, on an average, about six hundred thousand feet, board measure, to a saw, one half of this lumber being sawed from Pine, and the other from Spruce logs.

From Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick by Springer, John S.

On concrete work it is also advisable to keep the cost of forms per thousand feet board measure, so as to have such data for estimating on new work.

From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Gillette, Halbert Powers

More’n a third of the board measure left right there on the ground as slash, and slash that’s propped on the branches of the tops like powder-houses on stilts.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman