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cruise-line Lumbering 
n. one of the lines marked out by a cruiser (def. 1) while assessing a stand of timber.
See also: cruiser (def. 1) cruise ((v.)) (def. 2)
- c1963 The accuracy of the map, which is drawn by men skilled at copying information from aerial photographs, is checked in the areas photographed, by Foresters who travel a compass-route or "cruise-line" designed to cover all possible timber-types of forest in the proposed cutting area.
- 1954 His pencil ran down the figures recording the diameter of trees sampled along the cruise-lines.
- c1963 The accuracy of the map, which is drawn by men skilled at copying information from aerial photographs, is checked in the areas photographed, by Foresters who travel a compass-route or "cruise-line" designed to cover all possible timber-types of forest in the proposed cutting area.