twelve-by-twelve

Updated: May 6, 2025

There is a wagon-road paralleling the river over there at the Siding, as you know, and the first thing I did the next morning was to look for wagon-tracks. No set of wheels carrying anything as heavy as those twelve-by-twelve twenty-fours had gone over the road." "How were they taken, then? They couldn't have been floated off down the river, could they?"

Francis Lynde - The Taming of Red Butte Western

The girl found herself stranded in a settlement whose business was represented by one saloon, one section house, one stable, one twelve-by-twelve depot and a store that was no more than an addition to the saloon, with the bartender officiating in both places as customers required his services. Times when cattle were being shipped, the store was closed and the saloon had no rival.

B. M. Bower - Rim o' the World