DCHP-3

fitter

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.