making

Lumbering, Obs.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the process of cutting and trimming trees, especially for square timber.

Quotations

1853

. . . the same process is gone through . . . which finishes the operation of "making," as the lumber men term squaring the timber.

1854

. . . push on with all speed making and hauling.