Definition of "timber-yard" [timber-yard]

• A yard or place where timber is deposited or sold; a wood- or lumber-yard. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Terms & Expressions: chantier de bois = timber-yard chantier de construction navale = shipyard les chantiers de la marine = the dock-yards être en chantier = to be under construction chantier (in Canadian French) = lumberjack's headquarters"
• "There, extended along the fence, lay a ladder which by day served the laborers in the neighboring timber-yard."
• "Jean Valjean was sitting in a cross-walk on some planks deposited at the gate of a timber-yard."