DCHP-2
timber stick Lumbering, Obs. DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a piece of square timber.
See also: stick ((1)) (def. 1a)
- 1845 . . . howsomever I got to the shore, and hewed out a canoe from one of our own timber sticks. . . .
- 1883 The timber "sticks" are bound together, according to size and length, into cribs. . . .
- 1845 . . . howsomever I got to the shore, and hewed out a canoe from one of our own timber sticks. . . .