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☆ board rule

a measuring device with a graduated scale for finding out quickly how many board feet there are in a quantity of lumber

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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