stumpage

[ stuhm-pij ]

noun
  1. standing timber with reference to its value.

  2. the value of such timber.

Origin of stumpage

1
First recorded in 1815–25; stump + -age

Words Nearby 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 Kelland
  • The cost of logging under the methods of marking adopted is compensated fully in the stumpage appraisal.

    Our National Forests | Richard H. Douai Boerker
  • He kept sighing and wrinkling his brows, as though in deep rumination on a matter far removed from the stumpage question.

  • It 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

stumpage

/ (ˈstʌmpɪdʒ) /


noun
  1. US and Canadian standing timber or its value

  2. US and Canadian the right to fell timber on another person's land

  1. Canadian a tax or royalty payable on each tree felled, esp on crown land

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