score †

Lumbering, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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mark and, sometimes, roughly trim (a log) for hewing into square timber.

Quotations

1835

I hope it won't be long afore he has the wainy edge scored off. . . .

1891

. . . the "scorers" . . . stripped off the branches and slab sides from the tree trunks set aside for square timber....

1964

When the bark had been peeled off, the log was "scored."