board foot

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   the volume of a piece of wood 1 foot square and 1 inch thick

   Broadervolume unit

Questions about board foot

What does board foot mean?

board foot means "the volume of a piece of wood 1 foot square and 1 inch thick".

Is board foot a common word?

board foot is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.