Subject: Re: What is Deal?

From: Douglas Fisher <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 20:12:14 +0000

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
writes
>You guessed pretty close to the meaning of "deal."  Yellow deal refers
>to Scots Pine (aka Scots Fir) and White deal refers to spruce.  These
>woods were usually used for cheap or rustic furniture.  It's an
>archaic term.
Yes, correct, and according to the Collins English Dictionary White Deal
is Norway Spruce and the word deal comes from Middle Low German 'dele'
meaning plank.
It might be archaic to you but that's what we called it at school :)

-- 
Douglas Fisher