DCHP-3

waney cut

Lumbering, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a manner of trimming logs so as to leave a wane.

See: wane

Quotations

1945
The waney cut was used for the best of the pine; that is, the lower part of a first-class tall pine would make one good waney stick, its upper part would make a piece (or two) of square timber.
1945
Do these things . . . perhaps mean that Canfield, or Calvin and Breck, had invented the waney cut?