merchantable

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He found 5,000,000 feet of burned but merchantable timber lying on 400 acres around it.

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Nevertheless, the result of all this figuring and jiggering is a picture that is both merchantable and unexpectedly moving.

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Its quality, owing to frost damage, is not quite so good, and the merchantable quantity is estimated at 79.4% compared with 85% in 1922.

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Of the $15 billion merchantable goods, about one-half will be sold where it stands, across the oceans.

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The waste in preparing it for use is large, requiring four pounds of the crude article as it comes from the nest to make one pound of the cleansed, merchantable down.

From Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia by Ballou, Maturin Murray