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timber-cruise Lumbering 
n. a survey of a tract of forest to determine the quality and quantity of timber on it.
See also: cruise ((n.)) (def. 2)
- 1933 The people in Mud Lake remember the lumbermen by . . . their timber cruises and gigantic booms of wood as though it were yesterday.
- 1956 "Someone offered me a job on a timber cruise up in the north Ontario bush."
- 1958 A PWA helicopter . . . is employed by the B.C. Forest Service on a timber cruise of the Kootenay Lake area.
- 1933 The people in Mud Lake remember the lumbermen by . . . their timber cruises and gigantic booms of wood as though it were yesterday.