TWO BY FOUR meaning: Wooden board, typically 1.5x3.5 inches

We found 18 dictionaries that define the word two by four:

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two-by-four: Merriam-Webster
two-by-four: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
two-by-four: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
two-by-four, two-by-four: Collins English Dictionary
two-by-four: Vocabulary.com
two-by-four: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
two-by-four, two by four: Wiktionary
two-by-four: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
two-by-four: Infoplease Dictionary
two-by-four, two by four: Dictionary.com
two-by-four: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Two By Four, Two by Four: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
two-by-four: Rhymezone
two-by-four: FreeDictionary.org
two-by-four: Mnemonic Dictionary
two-by-four: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Two by four, two-by-four: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

two by four, two by four: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (two by four)

▸ noun:  (chiefly Canada, US) A length of sawn wood of cross section approximately 2 inches by 4 inches, most often employed as structural framing lumber (dimension or dimensional lumber).
▸ noun:  (chiefly Canada, US, dated) A small, modest building.
▸ noun:  Alternative form of two-by-four (“kind of pornographic comic book”) [(construction) A length of lumber having a cross section of two inches by four inches, or in the case of dimensional lumber three and a half inches by one and a half inches.]

Opposite:

four by two, 2x4

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