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Lumbering, Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a system for measuring waney pine to determine the average circumference for reckoning purposes.
See: string measure
Quotations
1945
In the 1870's a typical contract for waney pine might call for the timber to be not less that 15 feet long averaging 22 feet, and 20" average "string."