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schoolmarm (tree) Lumbering, Slang 
n. See 1942 quote.
- 1939 It was a pine. Long ago its trunk had been broken off by a slide or by the wind. Two stout branches had grown up instead, lightly tufted, to form a crotch. It was what the men there call a "school-marm tree." It stood sturdy, rather than tall, stark and black against the sunset. To me in those moments it had no phallic form. It was a figure, arms upflung.
- 1942 school marm--a forked log or tree.
- 1959 . . . and the only "school marm" he saw was a forked tree.
- 1939 It was a pine. Long ago its trunk had been broken off by a slide or by the wind. Two stout branches had grown up instead, lightly tufted, to form a crotch. It was what the men there call a "school-marm tree." It stood sturdy, rather than tall, stark and black against the sunset. To me in those moments it had no phallic form. It was a figure, arms upflung.