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West India
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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2 — Lumbering
a size of stave measuring 3 1/2' long by 4" broad and 4" thick.
Quotations
1821
I . . . have seized the same--amounting to about Six thousand Pipe Staves--five thousand feet Square Oak timber, and four thousand West India staves. . . .
1945
Though there were other sizes, for example the heavy "pipe stave," the two which were common in the Quebec export trade were the "standard" and the "West India."