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timber right

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noun

  1. ownership of standing timber with no rights to the land.


Example Sentences

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"There is a good deal of heavy timber right down the West Coast," said Jimmy dryly.

From Project Gutenberg

We have abundant timber right at hand, just across the two rivers, in Missouri and Kentucky.

From Project Gutenberg

Well, to work our adit we had to make an ore and dirt dump on adjacent land; and we’d hardly started it than two men began felling timber right across our skidway, until, speaking as if he commanded the universe, the Colonel ordered them off.

From Project Gutenberg

We now came in sight of timber right ahead of us, and apparently about five miles distant.

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