lumberyard

[luhm-ber-yahrd]

noun

1. a yard where lumber is stored for sale.

lumberyard

/ ˈlʌmbəˌjɑːd /

noun

1. Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): timberyard. an establishment where timber and sometimes other building materials are stored or sold

Word History and Origins

Origin of lumberyard¹

An Americanism dating back to 1780–90; lumber ¹ + yard ²

Example Sentences

When we moved to Carbon Canyon in 1969, central Malibu boasted not much more than a lone supermarket, a couple of gas stations and a lumberyard.

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With the hospital damaged, a medical triage center started at the local lumberyard.

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Near the granny flat where I lived before transferring to Patrick Henry were a lumberyard, a Kwikset factory and a trucking depot where my dad would pick up cargo containers.

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The floor and sides of the tub were constructed from yellow-cedar wood he found at a lumberyard in Tacoma.

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I was raised in a run-down granny flat in Anaheim a stone’s throw from a lumberyard, the only place my immigrant parents could afford when they married in 1978.

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