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n.
a stand of timber; the site of a logging operation.
Quotations
1902
It's a fine country . . . with a fine cutting of white pine.
1928
Surrounding the settlement was a tangle of second-growth timber, penetrated in every direction by the old roads where, at one time, great loads of logs had been hauled out from the cuttings.
1964
[It was] known to every shantyman of the Ottawa as the route to the Madawaska and Bonnechère cuttings.