stumpage
standing timber with reference to its value.
the value of such timber.
Origin of stumpage
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How to use stumpage in a sentence
He had beaten them with his dam and boom company; he had beaten them in certain stumpage operations.
Scattergood Baines | Clarence Budington KellandThe cost of logging under the methods of marking adopted is compensated fully in the stumpage appraisal.
Our National Forests | Richard H. Douai BoerkerHe kept sighing and wrinkling his brows, as though in deep rumination on a matter far removed from the stumpage question.
The Skipper and the Skipped | Holman DayIt is therefore true that stumpage prices have risen greatly, although conditions new to the American lumbermen are imposed.
Between the one dollar you pay for stumpage and the twenty dollars you get for lumber lies all these things.
The Rules of the Game | Stewart Edward White
British Dictionary definitions for stumpage
/ (ˈstʌmpɪdʒ) /
US and Canadian standing timber or its value
US and Canadian the right to fell timber on another person's land
Canadian a tax or royalty payable on each tree felled, esp on crown land
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