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Deal (United States a plank feet)

in the United States, a plank 12 feet long, 11 inches wide, and 22 inches thick. Deals are sawed of other sizes, but are reduced to that cubic dimension in computing them. In England, lumber not exceeding 3 inches in thickness and 9 inches wide.

The word is applied especially to the deal-ends. Fifty cubic feet of deals are inches in thickness and 9 inches wide. The word is applied especially to the inches or less in width, they are called DEALFISH a load, and 100 feet superficial are a square.