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Hundred. An established measure for timber consisting of 120 pieces (the Long Hundred or 10 dozen), except the Quebec Standard, which contains 100, of a certain size. The Petrograd or St. Petersburg Standard is the one most generally used in this country. In the early days of timber
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Proposed 1920 logship "composed of fifteen hundred standards, of which twelve hundred would be the cargo proper and three hundred the structure and binding frames."
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The measure varied in number, size and composition from country to country so the term is usually preceded by the region or port of origin. The countries of the
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