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A measure of boards or staves (see quots.). Now rare.
A measure of cut wood, esp. that used for fuel (probably so called because originally measured with a cord): a pile of wood, most frequently 8 feet…
Chiefly U.S. A stack of wood, esp. a rectangular stack of wood cut to a uniform length; such a stack as a measure of cut wood. Cf. wood rick n. at…