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falling†
Lumbering
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the felling of trees.
Quotations
1943
So huge they were (both cedar and fir) that days were spent in their falling.
1952
Everybody was too tired after nine hours of falling, bucking, loading, track-laying, cold-decking, scaling, saw-filing, flunkeying, or whatever the job was. . . .
1960
Men who have known forehead strain of Lump-line . . . / Swinging balance and cut of keen falling-saw / Bite of falling-axe, tap of falling-wedge. . . .