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  • noun Plural form of lumberyard.

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Examples

  • St. Mary's Bank, the country's oldest credit union, is one of almost 300 credit unions near the federal credit union lending cap, with about $85 million in loans outstanding to tiny New Hampshire businesses, including lumberyards, manufacturers and grocery stores.

    Credit Unions Push For Small-Business Lending Kyle Stock 2011

  • Snow filled the lumberyards of Peekskill along the Hudson River.

    Christmas: 1972 Gary Percesepe 2011

  • Snow filled the lumberyards of Peekskill along the Hudson River.

    Christmas: 1972 Gary Percesepe 2011

  • “Between the wooden buildings and the lumberyards, Chicago would be gone in a puff of smoke,” agreed a young man at an adjoining table.

    Firestorm! Joan Hiatt Harlow 2010

  • Outside the train windows, Connecticut unfurled into an endless spread of lumberyards and fenced-off freight ghettos, graveyards for retired buses and port-o-potties, all the wreckage hushed under sudden dusk.

    The Gin Closet Leslie Jamison 2010

  • It can still be found at many traditional lumberyards.

    Get the most out of your wood porch decking by using century-old tricks 2010

  • If successful, he said, more green-only lumberyards might sprout up.

    'Green Wood' Lumberyard Out on a Limb Jim Carlton 2010

  • The tower, with its steel structure and latticed timber flanks, refers both to historic pier towers and to the lumber pilings characteristic of the 19th century port lumberyards.

    Promenade Samuel-De Champlain by Daoust Lestage 2008

  • If successful, he said, more green-only lumberyards might sprout up.

    'Green Wood' Lumberyard Out on a Limb Jim Carlton 2010

  • If successful, he said, more green-only lumberyards might sprout up.

    'Green Wood' Lumberyard Out on a Limb Jim Carlton 2010

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