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The logging legacy also left behind a massive amount of unmerchantable timber heaped in piles scattered across thousands of acres alongside the road network.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 16, 2023

The provision requiring the burning of unmerchantable tobacco may have been enforced, but the storehouses were never built.

From Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" by Herndon, G. Melvin

The few merchantable trees he spares, together with those now unmerchantable, will, in perhaps twenty years, make another excellent crop.

From Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods by Allen, Edward Tyson

We want at least the mother in the home to be the final unmerchantable thing there.

From The American Country Girl by Crow, Martha Foote

However, the captain discovered there was room over the side, and there--all flesh is grass--from time to time during the voyage he jettisoned the unmerchantable.

From The Grandissimes by Cable, George Washington