DCHP-2
lumber ((v.)) DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1 v.
Lumbering (often with off) remove timber for commercial use.
See also: log ((v.)) (def. 2)
- 1831 His intention, he said, was to clear land and lumber some; and, he might have added, to keep a rum and whiskey shop, when he could obtain a supply.
- 1849 She said her husband was lumbering in the woods for ten months in the year, during all which time she never saw him. No wonder, then, that lumbering is attended with demoralizing consequences.
- 1896 [They] lumbered and built beautiful houses and made fine farms. . . .
2 v.
(usually with over) exploit for timber.
See also: lumbered-over
- 1872 This part of the country has never been "lumbered," being too difficult of access. . . .
- 1936 . . . the title to most of the surface of Eastern Canada, even to those parts which have been "lumbered over" for a century[,] remains with the Crown.
- 1831 His intention, he said, was to clear land and lumber some; and, he might have added, to keep a rum and whiskey shop, when he could obtain a supply.