Definition of "white pine" []

• A timber tree (Pinus strobus) of eastern North America, having needles in clusters of five and durable, easily worked wood. (noun)
• The wood of this tree. (noun)
• Any of several other pines having needles in clusters of five. (noun)

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• "They were cutting two-by-fours out of the tough, dense white pine the timber-getters delivered at $1,000 a truckload of fifteen cubic metres."