board foot

noun

: a unit of quantity for lumber equal to the volume of a board 12 × 12 × 1 inches

—abbreviation bd ft

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Whereas lumber cost about $400 per thousand board feet in 2019, lumber now costs about $525 per thousand board feet. —

Marc Hershberg, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024 Roughly one million board feet of sellable timber had been removed, and only a few of the largest larch remained. —

Laura Yale, Outside Online, 3 Oct. 2024 Lumber’s price drop has been particularly dramatic in just the last 90 days in the futures market, with contract prices for July falling 28% to $466 per thousand board feet (futures prices are around $100 above spot prices due to a delivery fee). —

Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 30 June 2024 Timber harvests in national forests, for example, plunged, from roughly 11 billion to roughly three billion board feet per year in the 1990s alone. —

Francis Fukuyama, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2014 See all Example Sentences for board foot