string measure

Lumbering, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a system for measuring waney pine to determine the average circumference for reckoning purposes.

Quotations

1945

This difficulty was solved by a method known as "string measure."

1945

There was bit timber to be had at first; the 1873 cut was over 21" string measure.