make timber

Lumbering

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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cut and trim trees ready for rafting or driving.

Quotations

1821

The large lot of timber was at last made and delivered.

1829

In winter they make it [timber] on the remote banks of small streams....

1896

He cleared land, made timber, built houses and mills.

1945

A gang was counted upon to "make" about 30,000 cubic feet in a season.

1964

To "make timber" the lumberman had first to secure a "limit" from the government. . . .