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Lumbering

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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cut the top off a standing tree, usually one to be used as a spar tree.

Quotations

1942

This [a spar tree] may be a standing tree, topped and rigged, or a tree brought in from elsewhere and raised for the purpose.

1953

. . . I've topped a spar up in Aberdeen,/ I've polled the logs down the Old Lachine.

1963

Often the first tree topped is used only for a raising tree to raise the final spar tree.