Crossword-Solution: STUMPAGE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Stumpage | n. | Timber in standing trees, -- often sold without the land at a fixed price per tree or per stump, the stumps being counted when the land is cleared. |
| Stumpage | n. | A tax on the amount of timber cut, regulated by the price of lumber. |
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| standing timber or its value | 1 answer |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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Sentences with STUMPAGE (5)
She learned that Toby was one of the oldest settlers in this part of the Michigan Peninsula, and in his youth had been a timber runner, that is, a man who by following the surveyors' lines on a piece of timber, and weaving back and forth across it, can judge its market value so nearly right that his employer, the prospective timber merchant, is able to bid intelligently for the so-called “stumpage” on the tract.
The courts would not allow him to cut a stick of timber on the Perkins Tract until a resurvey of the line was made by government-appointed surveyors, and that would be, when? Uncle Henry's money was tied up in the stumpage lease, or first payment to the owners of the land.
One was from Monteith--Class of '9l--a senior when Muggles was a freshman--and was postmarked "Wabacog, Canada," where Monteith owned a lumber mill--and where he ran it himself and everything connected with it from stumpage to scantling.
Cardigan was a shrewd judge of stumpage; with the calm certitude of a prophet he looked over township after township and cunningly checkerboarded it with his holdings.
For thirty years John Cardigan had played a waiting game with the owner of that timber, for the latter was as fully obsessed with the belief that he was going to sell it to John Cardigan at a dollar and a half per thousand feet stumpage as Cardigan was certain he was going to buy it for a dollar a thousand--when he should be ready to do so and not one second sooner.