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Lumbering
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a person employed to scale timber.
Quotations
1936
On the Coast, official scalers are now charged with the work of grading logs under the provision of the "Forest Act" . . . an Official Scaler holds the balance between logger and manufacturer.
1956
Hal knew that a summer at scaler's wages meant university for sure this fall.
1963
On the American side the scaler calculates the proportion of rot, and the man is paid for the rest.