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make timber Lumbering

• cut and trim trees ready for rafting or driving.

  See also: driving (def. 1)  make logs  making  rafting (def. 1)  timber-maker  

  • 1821  (1960)  The large lot of timber was at last made and delivered.
  • 1829  In winter they make it [timber] on the remote banks of small streams....
  • 1896  He cleared land, made timber, built houses and mills.
  • 1945  A gang was counted upon to "make" about 30,000 cubic feet in a season.
  • 1964  To "make timber" the lumberman had first to secure a "limit" from the government. . . .