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buying-and-selling cord
noun
a rough measure of wood depending on the bargaining skill of the buyer and seller CANADA, 2001
When you’re buying, it’s more; when you’re selling, it’s less.- A related term from Nova Scotia is “buying and selling cord,” with the explanation, “It’s bigger when you buy it and smaller when you sell!” and another is a “run” of wood, a cord cut to approximate stove lengths[.] — New York Folklore, New York Folklore Society, pp. Volumes 13–14, 1987
- [T]erms of “rough measure,” were mainly used to measure things, like quantities of firewood, in another age (buying and selling cord, a jag, a run). — Lilian Falk and Margaret Rose Harry, The English language in Nova Scotia: essays on past and present, 1999
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