Definition of "lumber-yard" [lumber-yard]

• A yard or inclosure where wood and timber are stored for sale. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Rather than cutting down a tree and transporting it from forest to mill to lumber-yard to building site, the house is the tree."
• "In a flare of morning sunlight pouring between two coal-pockets, and because the train had stopped to let a bridge swing and half a dozen great grain and lumber boats go by — a half-dozen in either direction — he saw a group of Irish stevedores idling on the bank of a lumber-yard whose wall skirted the water."
• "Now the train was passing the elevator, the grim storage - tanks for oil, a creamery, a lumber-yard, a stock-yard muddy and trampled and stinking."