Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Wood from which pulp is to be made.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word pulp-wood.
Examples
-
And I came here from Leith with a lot of pulp-wood propositions in my pocket to put before the London newspapers.
-
Vera Dutton Strong was an heiress to the huge Dutton pulp-wood fortune.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Berendt, John 1994
-
Vera Dutton Strong was an heiress to the huge Dutton pulp-wood fortune.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Berendt, John 1994
-
This is largely because the price of pulp-wood is low, and the cost of experimenting with new materials is great with the results uncertain.
Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory
-
The great sources of supply of pulp-wood are Maine and
Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory
-
If the timber could be conservatively managed as are live-stock products, so that all the waste could be utilized, all the small articles, shingles, lath, posts, tan-bark and extract, pulp-wood, wood for distillation and small manufactured articles would be made by-products of the larger cuts.
Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory
-
You can take two ways of looking at a tree, according to your disposition or your pocket-book; you can consider it as poetry or as pulp-wood.
-
During the same period, we exported more than 1,800,000 cords of pulp-wood, which represents an amount of $8,500,000.
-
Here is what happened; that pulp-wood made into paper, suddenly became worth $75,000,000; right there again, was a loss of $66,500,000 for Canada, and of this the Canadian workingman would have received about, twenty-five millions.
-
The morning of June 29th brought Cameron, armed with credentials which empowered him to transact any and all business connected with the pulp-wood holdings of the Canadian Wild Lands Company, Ltd. Murchison introduced him to Wentworth, who insisted that the man share his cabin.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.