DCHP-1 Online
liner Lumbering, Obs. 
n. See quotes.
See also: line ((v.)) (def. 1)
- 1853 As soon as the tree is felled, a person, called a liner, rosses and lines the tree on each side, and the axe-men cut the top of the tree off, at the length determined on by the liner. . . .
- 1863 Immediately on its fall, the 'liner' commenced to chop away the bark for a few inches wide all along the trunk before marking with charcoal where the axes were to hew in squaring the timber. . . .
- 1853 As soon as the tree is felled, a person, called a liner, rosses and lines the tree on each side, and the axe-men cut the top of the tree off, at the length determined on by the liner. . . .