timber stick

Lumbering, Obs.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a piece of square timber.

See: stick ((1)) (def. 1a)

Quotations

1845

. . . howsomever I got to the shore, and hewed out a canoe from one of our own timber sticks. . . .

1883

The timber "sticks" are bound together, according to size and length, into cribs. . . .