Definitions for stumpage

stumpage stump·age

Spelling: [stuhm-pij]
IPA: /ˈstʌm pɪdʒ/

Stumpage is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 398 anagrams from letters in stumpage (aegmpstu).

Definitions for stumpage

noun

  1. standing timber with reference to its value.
  2. the value of such timber.

Origin of stumpage

First recorded in 1815-25; stump + -age

Examples for stumpage

Uncle Henry's money was tied up in the stumpage lease, or first payment to the owners of the land.

Here's your stumpage at a dollar a thousand, and there's your lumber at twenty!

The cost of logging under the methods of marking adopted is compensated fully in the stumpage appraisal.

The sales are of stumpage only; the government does no logging on its own account.

When the logger is honest, he buys the right to cut from the owner of the land, paying "stumpage" of about fifty cents a tree.

At the stumpage rate your million and a half which Radway 'appropriated' would be only three thousand.

I'll give you a dollar a thousand stumpage for your timber, Bill.

Just like you forgot signing this lease and stumpage contract!

Your tolls for this, that, and the other figured up about as much as stumpage.

He kept sighing and wrinkling his brows, as though in deep rumination on a matter far removed from the stumpage question.

Word Value for stumpage
Scrable

13

Words with friends

17

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