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128 cubic feet of firewood, precisely stacked so lumber yards can't lie to you.
means A standard measure of stacked firewood: 4 feet high by 4 feet deep by 8 feet long, totaling 128 cubic feet (though actual solid wood volume is less once you account for gaps and air).
from From the practice of measuring firewood with an actual cord — a rope or string stretched around the stack to size it up. By the 1500s in English, 'cord' had shifted from the rope itself to the standardized bundle it measured, the way 'barrel' came to mean a quantity of oil rather than just the container.
- exact size
- 4 feet by 4 feet by 8 feet, stacked
- not a pile
- loose dumped wood is not a cord
- name origin
- measured by rope cord wrapped around stack
- common scam
- face cord is a third of a real cord