DCHP-3

withing

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

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

the process of lashing the pieces of a lumber raft together with specially made withes.

Quotations

1963
When a bottom was completed the next step was "withing" ; each piece of timber in the "bottom" and the traverse as it passed above it were tied together by a withe (a small white birch sapling softened between power-rollers) twisted up tight by a lever or "toggle."