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Answer for the clue "Softwood used to make paper ", 8 letters:
pulpwood

Word definitions for pulpwood in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. softwood used to make paper

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Soft wood used for pulping to make paper

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Pulpwood refers to timber with the principal use of making wood pulp for paper production.

Usage examples of pulpwood.

Out on the highway, truckers with their headlights on roared past, heading north with their tankers of oil, their loads of lumber, their freezer trucks full of sides of beef, or south with pulpwood, lobsters, or cans of sardines.

We make our own lumber, out of reeds harvested in the swamps after sunrise and converted to pulpwood, and we get some good hardwood from the native trees which only grow in four periods of two hundred hours a year.

It is dangerously close to stored 50-mm cannon ammunition, and it is directly under the pulpwood lumber plant, on the Third Level Down, and if the fire spreads up to that, it will endanger some of the growing vats at the carniculture plant on the Second Level Down.

There was a long wall, ceiling-high, that stretched off uptown in the direction of the spaceport, part of the support for the weight of the pulpwood plant on the level above, and piled against it was a lot of junk machinery of different kinds that had been hauled in here and dumped long ago and then forgotten.

The truth was that the Company had kept the road open with snowploughs to permit movement of pulpwood in motor-trucks to their big mill at River Harbour, and our narrow passage through the timber was paved with hard packed snow that gave smoother riding than many a town street.

Their descendants still plough the windy hillsides, cutting saw-logs and pulpwood on their own timber lots in the winter-time, and shopping at the Corner on Saturday nights, though many have drifted away to the States and other scenes more prosperous.

The men were coming out from the Rossignol pulpwood camps for Christmas, and we were to pay their little Wages Due slips and speed them on their way.

If Congress starts messing with pulpwood, would you please let us know?

Been crushed with her and their unborn son on an icy mountain road by a pulpwood truck with a blown tire?

Our men knew twenty years ago that the Canadian pulpwood industry would be a vital spot when the war came.

I swing the Maxima into the left lane and goose it around a pulpwood truck.

Mosea retired pulpwood cuttera substantial check and a gallon of Wild Turkey.

Joe suspected that Deasey had intended these revelations to be warnings to Sammy, but his cousin had chosen to interpret them as proof that success in the pulpwoods was not incompatible with talent, and that he ought not to abandon his own novelistic dreams.

They headed south loaded down with pulpwood, paper, and potatoes, and north with manufactured goods for those towns of what Maine people sometimes called the Big Northern - Bangor, Millinocket, Machias, Presque Isle, Houlton.

His third, a good boy, died in a collision with a pulpwood truck up around Presque Isle -- back in 1973, that was.