Wiktionary
n. A merchant that sells finished wood products used to build objects, such as some furniture and fixtures, as well as construction and repair of complete structures such as houses, buildings, etc. Most lumber yards have evolved into full-service hardware stores.
Wikipedia
A lumber yard is a location where lumber and wood-related products used in construction and/or home improvement projects are processed or stored. Some lumber yards offer retail sales to consumers, and some of these may also provide services such as the use of planers, saws and other large machines.
Generally, timber yards are locations where raw logs and other wood or forest products are processed and stored. The terms "lumber yard" and "timber yard" are sometimes used interchangeably, and timber yards may include additional aspects that lumber yards encompass, and vice versa.
Usage examples of "lumber yard".
About two that afternoon, right after wed come back from the lumber yard with nails and stuff, Hanson pulled up in Uncle Chesters driveway and got out.
Pringle and Larochelle arrived at the lumber yard as the sun was sliding down behind Gahato Mountain.
Larochelle wore an old football helmet, several sweaters, and a lumber yard worker's heavy leather apron.
I ain't going to be as easy a touch as that lumber yard boy, even if you are kin.
One Saturday morning, as I was going to the lumber yard for some material to finish the basement, the mailman handed me the mail.
The mill was now operating at nearly full capacity and the lumber yard was beginning to fill.
The Lumber Yard is a sort of Alsatia, to which the hunted prisoner retires.
The soldiers of the Mexican engineering battalion would then fashion a raft from boards requisitioned from the nearest lumber yard to ferry the main mass of the treasure across the subterranean river.