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cutting 
n. a stand of timber; the site of a logging operation.
- 1902 It's a fine country . . . with a fine cutting of white pine.
- 1928 Surrounding the settlement was a tangle of second-growth timber, penetrated in every direction by the old roads where, at one time, great loads of logs had been hauled out from the cuttings.
- 1964 [It was] known to every shantyman of the Ottawa as the route to the Madawaska and Bonnechère cuttings.
- 1902 It's a fine country . . . with a fine cutting of white pine.