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Lumbering, Hist. or Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the member of a gang who selected the trees to be felled for fashioning into square timber.
Quotations
1947
The fitter came first, selecting trees large enough to make a stick, and sound from top to base.
1964
The fitter ranged the forest selecting timber that was large enough and sound enough to be economically floated to Quebec.