lumber
Term · Agriculture and food · MLC-T-AGR-003859
The product of the saw and planing mill for which manufacturing is limited to sawing, resawing, passing lengthwise through a standard planing machine, crosscutting to length, and matching. Lumber may be made from either softwood or hardwood
| Identifier | MLC-T-AGR-003859 |
|---|---|
| Field | Agriculture and food |
| Subject | Forestry, Wildland Management |
| Synonyms | dimension lumber; sawnwood |
| References | Forest Products Laboratory. 2010. Wood handbook - Wood as an engineering material. Gen. Tech. Rep. FPL-GTR-190. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory; NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary |
| See also | wood products; lumber preservation; lumber yards; sawmills; sawmilling industry; lumber quality; finger-jointed lumber; machine stress-rated lumber |
| Translations | Spanish: madera elaborada |
Record as JSON
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"id": "MLC-T-AGR-003859",
"term": "lumber",
"field": "Agriculture and food",
"definition": "The product of the saw and planing mill for which manufacturing is limited to sawing, resawing, passing lengthwise through a standard planing machine, crosscutting to length, and matching. Lumber may be made from either softwood or hardwood",
"synonyms": [
"dimension lumber",
"sawnwood"
],
"subject": "Forestry, Wildland Management",
"see_also": [
"wood products",
"lumber preservation",
"lumber yards",
"sawmills",
"sawmilling industry",
"lumber quality",
"finger-jointed lumber",
"machine stress-rated lumber"
],
"references": [
"Forest Products Laboratory. 2010. Wood handbook - Wood as an engineering material. Gen. Tech. Rep. FPL-GTR-190. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory",
"NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
],
"translations": {
"es": "madera elaborada"
},
"url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/lumber/"
}
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