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1v. — Lumbering, Obs.
mark a log for cutting into square timber.
Quotations
1853
Taking off the bark [rossing] a few inches in width along the entire length of the trunk on the space that is to be lined, so that the black mark may be more distinctly seen by the scorers.
1854
Three men and a cook form a "gang";--two cut down the tree, line and score it, that is, split out the outer slabs so as to make it four-sided. . . .
2v.
engage in tracking (def. 1).
Quotations
1924
The remainder of the crew were lining a loaded York boat up the Athabasca river. . . .
1961
Attacking a rapid upstream, the voyageurs would . . . paddle the canoe, "demi-charge," line or pole the canoe, make a "décharge," or portage.