bird peck n.— «Sapsuckers are unwitting heroes to many creatures, but in the eyes of the timber industry, not so much. Timber people hate sapsuckers because they feel the birds damage the trees (unlike them, who only cut the entire tree...
skiamorph n.— «Survivals of this sort are known as “skiamorphs” (shadow shapes), and in one form or another they are very common in technology. A modern instance is the survival of timber graining on the surfaces of plastic...
dodgepot n.— «The old boats and dodgepots who make up the jumpers are back clambering over timber and birch, and just to remind me a nice juicy cheque arrived the other day.» —“Time To React Over Jarvis Filly” Sporting...
saw off v. phr.— «Saw-off. To stop. Also to interupt, silence. “When we get this done, we’ll saw off for the day.” Noted in Tennessee but nowhere else. The expression likely is derived from the sense of completion that comes...
rocking chair industry n.— «A lot of timber workers referred to it as the “rocking chair” industry, because timber workers spent a lot of time on their porches in rocking chairs during the bust time.» —“Coastal Towns Seek...
cat face n.— «You may hear that…much of the timber is “cat-faced”…that “cat face” is a scar made by a fire in a tree.» —“Their Speech is Vivid” Washington Post Mar. 26, 1905...