board measure
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of board measure
First recorded in 1650–60
Example Sentences
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The ruling didn’t affect the October 2023 election board measure, which hadn’t been implemented, blocked by a separate trial court decision.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2025
In building materials and construction, we should have to abandon the board measure and substitute square decimeters, centares or ares.
From Time Magazine Archive
The American nation is not suffering for the dollars that those lovely forest giants would fetch by board measure.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by William Temple Hornaday
More’n a third of the board measure left right there on the ground as slash, and slash that’s propped on the branches of the tops like powder-houses on stilts.
From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day
Multiply this area by 2, and the product will be the number of feet board measure of 2-in. plank required.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette
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