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AD Air dried
ADAT Air dried after treatment
ADF After deducting freight
ALS American Lumber Standard
APO A product of
AST At ships tackle
AW&L All widths & lengths
AYC Alaskan Yellow Cedar
B&S Beams & stringers
BD Board
BD FT Board feet
BDL Bundle
BEV Beveled
BF Board feet
BH Boxed heart
BHND Boxed heart no defect
BL or B/L Bill of Lading
BM Board measure
BSND Bright sapwood no defect
BTR Better
C&F Cost & freight
C/L Carload
CB Center beaded
CIF Cost, insurance & freight
CLF Hundred lineal feet
CLG Ceiling
CLIS California Lumber Inspection Service
CLR Clear
CM Center matched
CSG Casing
CV Center vee
CWT Hundred weight
D&M Dressed & matched
D/S or DS Drop siding
DET Double end trimmed
DF Douglas Fir
DF/L or DF-L Douglas Fir / Larch
DIM Dimension
DKG Decking
E Edge
E&CB2S Edge & center bead 2 sides
E&CV1S Edge & center vee 1 side
E&CV2S Edge & center vee 2 sides
EB1S Edge bead 1 side
EB2S Edge bead 2 sides
EE Eased edges
EG Edge (vertical) grain
EM Edge matched
ES Englemann spruce
EV1S Edge vee 1 side
EV2S Edge vee 2 sides
FAS Firsts & Seconds
FAS Free alongside (vessel)
Fb or f Extreme fiber stress in bending
FCPW Flat car paper wrapped
FG Flat or slash grain
FLG Flooring
FOB Free on board (named point)
FOHC Free of heart center
FOK Free of knots
FRT Freight
FSRGH Full sawn rough
FT Foot
FT SM Feet surface measure
G/S Gradestamped
G1S Good 1 side
G2S Good 2 sides
GRN Green
H or M Hit or miss
H&M Hit & miss
HB Hollow bark
HDO High Density Overlay
HF Hemlock-true firHEM - Hemlock
IC Incense cedar
IN Inch or inches
IND Industrial
IWP Idaho white pine
J&P Joists & planks
JTP Jointed
KD Kiln dried
KDAT Kiln dried after treatment
L Larch
LAM Laminated
LBR Lumber
LCL Less than carload
LF Light Framing
LGR Longer
LGTH Length
LIN or LF Lineal feet
LNG Lining
LP Lodgepole pine
M Thousand
MBF Thousand board feet
MBM Thousand (ft.) board measure
MC Moisture Content
MDO Medium Density Overlay
MG Mixed grain
MOE Modulus of elasticity
MOR Modulus of rupture
MSF Thousand square feet
MSR Machine stress rated
N1E Nose 1 edge
NBM Net board measure
O&ES Oiled & edge sealed
P&T Posts & timbers
PAD Partly air drief
PET Precision end trimmed
PP Ponderosa pine
PW Paper wrapped
R/L or RL Random lengths
R/S Resawn
R/W or RW Random widths
RC Red cedar
RDM Random
REG Regular
RGH Rough
RIS Redwood Inspection Service
RW/L Random widths & lengths
S&E Side & edge
S-DRY Surfaced dry
S-GRN Surfaced green
S/L or SL Shiplap
S1E Surfaced 1 edge
S1S Surfaced 1 side
S1S&CM Surfaced 1 side & center matched
S1S1E Surfaced 1 side, 1 edge
S1S2E Surfaced 1 side, 2 edges
S2E Surfaced 2 edges
S2S Surfaced 2 sides
S2S&CM Surfaced 2 sides & center matched
S2S1E Surfaced 2 sides, 1 edge
S4S Surfaced 4 sides
S4S&CM Surfaced 4 sides & center matched
S4SEE Surfaced 4 sides, eased edges
SB1S Single bead 1 side
SDG Siding
SEL Select
SF Square feet
SG Slash or flat grain
SM Surface measure
SP Sugar pine
SQ Square
SSRGH Standard sawn rough
STK Stock
STND Stained
STPG Stepping
STR Structural
SYP Southern yellow pine
T&G Tongue & groove
T&T Truck & trailer
TAD Thoroughly air dried
TBR Timber
VG Vertical grain
WCLIB West Coast Lumber Inspection Bureau
WDR Wider
WF White fir
WRC Western red cedar
WT Weight
WTH Width
WW White woods
WWPA Western Wood Products Association
" Inch or inches
' Foot or feet
x By, as 4x4 = (4 "by" 4)
4/4 5/4 6/4, etc. Nominal thickness in fractions of one inch
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