stumper Hand-logging
n. See quotes.
- 1908  Many trees they noticed . . . would drop right into water from the stumps when felled; a thought that made their hearts feel light. For "stumpers" are the most profitable trees that hand-loggers can hope to get; they need so little time and work.
- 1940  Stumper [is] a tree--having been felled by a handlogger--which does not stop from stump to sea.