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top Lumbering 
v. cut the top off a standing tree, usually one to be used as a spar tree.
See also: spar tree
- 1942 This [a spar tree] may be a standing tree, topped and rigged, or a tree brought in from elsewhere and raised for the purpose.
- 1953 . . . I've topped a spar up in Aberdeen,/ I've polled the logs down the Old Lachine.
- 1963 Often the first tree topped is used only for a raising tree to raise the final spar tree.
- 1942 This [a spar tree] may be a standing tree, topped and rigged, or a tree brought in from elsewhere and raised for the purpose.