lumber town

collocation in English

meaningsoflumberandtown

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lumber
noun[U]
uk
/ˈlʌm.bər/us
/ˈlʌm.bɚ/
wood that has been prepared ...
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town
noun
uk
/taʊn/us
/taʊn/
a place where people live and work, containing many houses, shops, places of work, places of entertainment, etc., and usually larger than a village but smaller than ...
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(Definition oflumberandtownfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflumber town

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The town thrived as alumbertownthrough the early 1900s.
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Oshkosh was a frontierlumbertown, filled with mills.
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The community was founded as alumbertownin the 1880s and named after a logger.
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Mineola was alumbertown.
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Deering began as alumbertownin the early 1900s.
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It became a busylumbertown.
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The number of workers needed was more than alumbertown, or the nearest town, could provide.
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The house was built in the economic boom associated with the arrival of the railroad and the community's subsequent economic success as alumbertown.
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Balaclava is a near ghost town today, a come down from the bustlinglumbertownof its heyday.
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Menominee gained prominence as alumbertown.
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The lumber camps, and the lumber towns needed to be supplied with food and other provisions.
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