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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a log below the marketable standard ; a reject.
Quotations
1829
The refuse wood is called culls, and brings an inferior price.
1883
Some refractory stick generally some worthless "cull," or rotten, twisted piece . . . is the cause of the whole mischief.
1964
They are not always economic because cutting takes place at some distance from a ready market for what the loggers consider undersized or cull sticks.