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lumber ((v.))
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1v.
Lumbering (often with off) remove timber for commercial use.
See: log ((v.))(def. 2)
Quotations
1831
His intention, he said, was to clear land and lumber some; and, he might have added, to keep a rum and whiskey shop, when he could obtain a supply.
1849
She said her husband was lumbering in the woods for ten months in the year, during all which time she never saw him. No wonder, then, that lumbering is attended with demoralizing consequences.
1896
[They] lumbered and built beautiful houses and made fine farms. . . .
2v.
(usually with over) exploit for timber.
See: lumbered-over