Definition of Stumpage

1. n. Timber in standing trees, -- often sold without the land at a fixed price per tree or per stump, the stumps being counted when the land is cleared.

Definition of Stumpage

1. Noun. Trees and other standing timber, treated as a commodity ¹

2. Noun. The value of this timber ¹

3. Noun. The right to fell such timber ¹

4. Noun. The fee for the right to fell such timber. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stumpage

1. uncut marketable timber [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stumpage

stummed
stummel
stummels
stummick
stumming
stump
stump camera
stump dump
stump orator
stump orators
stump powder
stump powders
stump speech
stump spud
stump up
stumpage (current term)
stumpages
stumped
stumper
stumpers
stumpflite
stumpier
stumpies
stumpiest
stumpily
stumpiness
stumping
stumpknocker
stumplike
stumpnose

Literary usage of Stumpage

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of Annual Meeting by Innovative Users Group Annual meeting (1910)
"The word "stumpage" is a term used to express all kinds of timber standing in the ... The general impression prevails that stumpage is excessively high in ..."

2. Forest Products, Their Manufacture and Use: Embracing the Principal by Nelson Courtlandt Brown (1919)
"stumpage Values. As in the case of all timber values, the value of pole stumpage ... Cedar pole stumpage is practically the only pole stumpage traded in, ..."

3. Forest Products, Their Manufacture and Use: Embracing the Principal by Nelson Courtlandt Brown (1919)
"stumpage Values. As in the case of all timber values, the value of pole stumpage ... Cedar pole stumpage is practically the only pole stumpage traded in, ..."

4. Forest Mensuration by Herman Haupt Chapman (1921)
"Relation between Forest Mensuration, stumpage Values and the Valuation of ... This is known as stumpage value. The stumpage value of standing timber is ..."

5. Forestry Quarterly by New York State College of Forestry (1914)
"stumpage APPRAISAL FORMULAE. BY DONALD BRUCE. While there are a number of different formulae in common use at the present time in appraising stumpage, ..."

6. Forestry Quarterly by New York State College of Forestry (1907)
"timated value of the stumpage over and above the fixed stumpage dues; or (2) bids may be asked on the amount of stumpage dues to be paid per thousand feet ..."

7. The Organization of the Lumber Industry: With Special Reference to the by Wilson Martindale Compton (1916)
"Second, the willingness or purpose to grow timber at the present time is in no sense dependent upon present stumpage prices. It depends upon the price which ..."

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