knotty pine

1. 1.

   pine lumber with many knots; used especially for paneling and furniture

   Broaderpine

Questions about knotty pine

What does knotty pine mean?

knotty pine means "pine lumber with many knots; used especially for paneling and furniture".

Is knotty pine a common word?

knotty pine 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.