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slaughter (down)
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v.
of trees, cut down, especially wastefully.
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1830
The timber is found about fifteen miles up the Shelburne River, where large quantities of it are (in the phraseology of the woodsmen,) "slaughtered down," and floated with the stream, when the waters rise with the freshets in the spring.