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waney cut Lumbering, Hist. 
a manner of trimming logs so as to leave a wane.
See also: wane
- 1945 Do these things . . . perhaps mean that Canfield, or Calvin and Breck, had invented the waney cut?
- 1945 The waney cut was used for the best of the pine; that is, the lower part of a first-class tall pine would make one good waney stick, its upper part would make a piece (or two) of square timber.
- 1945 Do these things . . . perhaps mean that Canfield, or Calvin and Breck, had invented the waney cut?