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单词 timber yard
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Definition of timber yard in English:

timber yard

noun
British
  • A place that sells timber and other building materials.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Before long he opened a timber yard in Hindley Street on leased land.
    • Already well known for the dexterity and neatness of his hands, it was in his brother-in-law's timber yard that Johnny learnt to handle knives and saws with expert precision by watching carpenters at work.
    • The mill flourished, with timber trolleyed down to the timber yard and hauled onto a wagon pulled by five stout horses.
    • The bill would give an incentive to schools, hospitals, hotels, farmers or timber yards to install their own small-scale units such as wood burners, ground heat pumps or straw-fired heating.
    • Before the summer was over the timber yard had closed and he was back home, kicking his heels once more.
    • You got home from the timber yard, you shaped it up and carved it out, and yes, you were in the water the next day after you varnished it.
    • I spent hours at the timber yard organising materials.
    • There was large scale logging and a huge timber yard in the vicinity.
    • An 85-year-old Philadelphia timber yard owner says he hasn't seen the top of his desk for 43 years.
    • Commuters today faced severe disruption following a major blaze at a timber yard.
    • At first I thought the area below Kingston bridge near the old timber yards was going to produce a monster pike.
    • The court heard the defendants met up with the man at Christmas 2000, at a disused timber yard in Nottinghamshire, where the illegal diesel was then being made.
    • A worker has been crushed to death at a Bradford timber yard.
    • But Brooke's timber yard and the pungent-smelling Thompson flour mill is hardly on the tourist trail.
    • The blazing timber yard, which is close to a main train line, brought services on the Tilbury loop line to halt as the line was closed for safety reasons.
    • Walter finds manual work in a timber yard, and rents an apartment which happens to be opposite a school.
    • A woman recently took a trailer to a Christchurch timber yard to buy some decking for a home project.
    • The material available in the colonial timber yard varied from region to region, but the material described is similar throughout Britain and her colonies.
    • There was a timber yard next door and someone thought to test the process on pine.
    • He rents a room overlooking an elementary school and is given a job at a timber yard.
    • Failing to get him a ship, we induced him to accept work in a saw-mill and timber yard: hard rough work, but it is bringing out a fine independence.
    • Peter, who spent the 1990s working in a South Craven timber yard, made the latest film after moving to Dallas with his Texan wife Angelique.
    • I was hanging out in the timber yard for longer than is necessary to ask my friend working there what time he wants to have lunch.
    • He worked in the timber yard opposite and had seen the men entering the building.
    • As they waited at a timber yard in South Yorkshire, they were amazed when another two lorries turned up containing more than eight million more un-taxed cigarettes from France.
    • Under the good planks on the top of the pile in the timber yard were all the shoddy ones.
    • The manager said they have been running the timber yard as a partnership for the past 15 years.
    • More than 100 residents crammed into the meeting as Knightspur homes unveiled its proposal for the former timber yard at Freeman's Yard.

Definition of timber yard in US English:

timber yard

noun
British
  • A lumberyard.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Peter, who spent the 1990s working in a South Craven timber yard, made the latest film after moving to Dallas with his Texan wife Angelique.
    • Failing to get him a ship, we induced him to accept work in a saw-mill and timber yard: hard rough work, but it is bringing out a fine independence.
    • The blazing timber yard, which is close to a main train line, brought services on the Tilbury loop line to halt as the line was closed for safety reasons.
    • There was a timber yard next door and someone thought to test the process on pine.
    • The material available in the colonial timber yard varied from region to region, but the material described is similar throughout Britain and her colonies.
    • A worker has been crushed to death at a Bradford timber yard.
    • As they waited at a timber yard in South Yorkshire, they were amazed when another two lorries turned up containing more than eight million more un-taxed cigarettes from France.
    • Walter finds manual work in a timber yard, and rents an apartment which happens to be opposite a school.
    • An 85-year-old Philadelphia timber yard owner says he hasn't seen the top of his desk for 43 years.
    • Already well known for the dexterity and neatness of his hands, it was in his brother-in-law's timber yard that Johnny learnt to handle knives and saws with expert precision by watching carpenters at work.
    • Before long he opened a timber yard in Hindley Street on leased land.
    • I was hanging out in the timber yard for longer than is necessary to ask my friend working there what time he wants to have lunch.
    • Under the good planks on the top of the pile in the timber yard were all the shoddy ones.
    • More than 100 residents crammed into the meeting as Knightspur homes unveiled its proposal for the former timber yard at Freeman's Yard.
    • Before the summer was over the timber yard had closed and he was back home, kicking his heels once more.
    • You got home from the timber yard, you shaped it up and carved it out, and yes, you were in the water the next day after you varnished it.
    • The bill would give an incentive to schools, hospitals, hotels, farmers or timber yards to install their own small-scale units such as wood burners, ground heat pumps or straw-fired heating.
    • At first I thought the area below Kingston bridge near the old timber yards was going to produce a monster pike.
    • He rents a room overlooking an elementary school and is given a job at a timber yard.
    • He worked in the timber yard opposite and had seen the men entering the building.
    • The mill flourished, with timber trolleyed down to the timber yard and hauled onto a wagon pulled by five stout horses.
    • I spent hours at the timber yard organising materials.
    • But Brooke's timber yard and the pungent-smelling Thompson flour mill is hardly on the tourist trail.
    • There was large scale logging and a huge timber yard in the vicinity.
    • The manager said they have been running the timber yard as a partnership for the past 15 years.
    • Commuters today faced severe disruption following a major blaze at a timber yard.
    • The court heard the defendants met up with the man at Christmas 2000, at a disused timber yard in Nottinghamshire, where the illegal diesel was then being made.
    • A woman recently took a trailer to a Christchurch timber yard to buy some decking for a home project.
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