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schoolmarm (tree)
Lumbering, Slang
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
See 1942 quote.
Quotations
1939
It was a pine. Long ago its trunk had been broken off by a slide or by the wind. Two stout branches had grown up instead, lightly tufted, to form a crotch. It was what the men there call a "school-marm tree." It stood sturdy, rather than tall, stark and black against the sunset. To me in those moments it had no phallic form. It was a figure, arms upflung.
1942
school marm--a forked log or tree.
1959
. . . and the only "school marm" he saw was a forked tree.