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white pine † 

• 1a a tall, stately pine, Pinus strobus, of eastern Canada, much used for shipmasts in colonial days and providing the basis for the lumber industry.

  See also: buckwheat pine  pumpkin pine  Quebec pine  Weymouth pine  

  • 1767  They are hereby forbid to cut down . . . White Pine . . . on the lands above described.
  • 1853  Generally speaking, the white or American pine, from its vast length of trunk, contains a larger number of cubic feet than any other tree in the Canadian forest.
  • 1966  But the white pine, tallest and stateliest of all the trees in Ontario, was held the most worthy of worship

• 1b the light, soft wood of this tree.

  • 1828  Wanted, 500 Cords Hemlock Tamarac, or Dry white Pine Wood.
  • 1947  He would have to make his own [shingles] with a drawknife and some chunks of "corky" white pine. . . .

• 2 a slim, straight pine, Pinus contorta var. latifolia, common in the Rocky Mountain region, so called because the young trees make good lodgepoles.

  See also: lodgepole pine  

  • 1894  Ascending the slope on the west side of the valley we come at once into a belt of the western hemlock and white pine which is characteristic of all the mountains from here to the Coast Range.
  • 1956  Lodgepole Pine [is also called] white pine. . . .

• 3 Lumbering the western white pine, especially with reference to its wood.

  See also: western white pine  

  • 1956  Western white pine [is also called] white pine. . . .
  • 1966  SPECIES CUT, ALL PRODUCTS, 1964, CONVERTED TO _F.B.M. . . . Totals, Coast . . . White Pine 3, 717, 638.