board hole

Lumbering

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a slot cut by loggers in the trunk of a tree and intended to hold the board on which the fellers stand.

Quotations

1942

But one forked stump, three "board holes" high, Was sure to hang up e'er the turn went by. . . .