   thumb|250px|right|timber in storage for later processing at a sawmill  thumb|250px|the harbor of bellingham, washington, filled with logs, 1972 lumber (american english)http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lumber or timber (british english, hiberno-english, new zealand english, and australian english)oxford english dictionary second edition on cd-rom (v. 4.0) Â© oxford university press 2009. is wood that has been processed into beams and planks, a stage in the process of wood production. lumber may be supplied either rough-sawn, or surfaced on one or more of its faces. besides pulpwood, rough lumber is the raw material for furniture-making and other items requiring additional cutting and shaping. it is available in many species, usually hardwoods, but it is also readily available in softwoods such as white pine and red pine because of their low cost. finished lumber is supplied in standard sizes, mostly for the construction industry, primarily softwood from coniferous species including pine, fir and spruce (collectively known as spruce-pine-fir), cedar, and hemlock, but also some hardwood, for high-grade flooring. lumber is predominantly used for structural purposes but has many other uses as well. lumber is classified as hardwood or softwood. ==terminology== in the united kingdom and other commonwealth countries such as australia and new zealand, timber is a term used for sawn wood products, such as floor boards, whereas generally in the united states and canada, it refers to standing or felled trees, before they are milled into boards referred to as lumber. "timber" is also used there to describe sawn lumber not less than 5&nbsp;inches (127&nbsp;mm) in its smallest dimension. an example of the latter is often partially finished lumber used in timber-frame construction. in the united kingdom, the word lumber is rarely used in relation to wood and timber is almost universally used in its place; lumber does, however, have several other meanings in the uk, including unused or unwanted items. ===remanufactured lumber===  remanufactured lumber refers to secondar
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