lumber mill

collocation in English

meaningsoflumberandmill

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lumber
noun[U]
uk
/ˈlʌm.bər/us
/ˈlʌm.bɚ/
wood that has been prepared ...
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mill
noun[C]
uk
/mɪl/us
/mɪl/
a building where grain is crushed ...
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(Definition oflumberandmillfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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They drew a map and knew that there would be alumbermilllocated in the town.
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Thelumbermillwas the primary employer in town, with the first major mill formed 1909, until 1994 when the mill was permanently closed.
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The site operated as a shipping point for cotton and lumber, with alumbermillfunctioning there.
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Historically, it had greater local importance due to the presence of an activelumbermill.
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The new settlement, an oldlumbermill, was not surrounded by the fertile land and good sources of water that the previous location had.
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Pine knots, a waste material from the adjacentlumbermill, were a prime source for charcoal.
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The population declined in the 1940s and 1950s due to the closure of thelumbermilland the decline in the herring fishery.
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Alumbermilland the fishery were the main employers in the community.
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In the early 1900s, the town boasted four grain elevators, an ice plant, alumbermilland several blacksmith shops.
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Later, alumbermillwas built in its place.
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Fullerton was once an industrial community based around a largelumbermill.
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From a family that owns a cedar forest andlumbermill.
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Once the site of alumbermillit is now primarily a bedroom community.
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We had alumbermill, a flour mill, an old-fashioned, all-purpose store grocery store, and a church.
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It was formed around alumbermillin 1891.
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One cave was known to exist at the site of a formerlumbermillnearby.
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Economic prosperity eventually returned, when a largelumbermillwas constructed in the area.
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In 1863, the firstlumbermillbegan operation and cleared most of the old growth trees.
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