DCHP-3

cruise-line

Lumbering
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

one of the lines marked out by a cruiser (def. 1) while assessing a stand of timber.

See: cruiser(def. 1),cruise ((v.))(def. 2)

Quotations

1954
His pencil ran down the figures recording the diameter of trees sampled along the cruise-lines.
<i>c</i>1963
The accuracy of the map, which is drawn by men skilled at copying information from aerial photographs, is checked in the areas photographed, by Foresters who travel a compass-route or "cruise-line" designed to cover all possible timber-types of forest in the proposed cutting area.