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Alternative form of alestake [(historical) A stake or pole serving as a sign at an alehouse or inn, often with a garland or "bush" attached.]
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Alternative form of ashpit [A pit for the disposal of ashes.]
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A pit for the disposal of ashes.
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A piece of excavating equipment consisting of a digging bucket or scoop on the end of an articulated arm, drawn backwards to move earth. Used in excavator/digger and backhoe tractors.
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A person who creates bales, either by operating or feeding such a machine, or by creating the bales by hand.
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(historical) A local judge among miners.
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A short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood.
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(Britain, chiefly Scotland) A heap or pile, especially of metallic ore
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Synonym of blowing house
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(UK) Buildings, especially domestic housing.
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(mining) A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.
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(rare, proscribed) Alternative form of butcher block. [A style of assembled wood (often sugar maple, teak, or walnut) used as heavy duty chopping blocks, table tops, and cutting boards.]
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A device used to open tin cans, usually by slicing the lid off.
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(lumbering) An unfinished log after preliminary cutting.
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A consultant whose job is to assist in downsizing a workplace
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A tool for pulverising clods of soil so as to produce a level surface.
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(UK, dated) One who raises coal out of the hold of a ship.
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A bag for the storage of coal.
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A sack for carrying coal.
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(Cornwall, mining, obsolete) Formed of vertical plates, or combs.
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An agricultural machine that crimps and crushes newly cut hay to promote faster and more even drying.
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An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.
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Split and cut firewood as an economic commodity.
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(mining, historical) A worker in charge of the wagonway, reporting to the deputy.
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A semirigid cubical plastic container, typically used within a cardboard box.
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Having been cleared of valuable timber.
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(Australia, archaic) A miner's wife.
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Lumber cut to standard sizes.
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(mining) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
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(metallurgy) The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.
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A mechanical device used in grain mills for bolting.
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An agricultural device for dropping seed and manure into the soil simultaneously.
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A vehicle designed to excavate or transport earth in large quantities.
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A silo used for storing wheat, corn or other grain (grain elevator).
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Any machine, usually self-powered and self-propelled, used for digging out material, such as earth, from the surface of the ground.
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A vehicle, often on tracks, used to dig ditches etc.
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A person who fells trees; a lumberjack
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(forestry) A motorized vehicle, used in logging, that can rapidly cut, gather and fell trees.
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(forestry) An attachment for a crane or other piece of machinery used for felling trees.
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(obsolete) A hopper-shaped box in which ore is placed to be stamped.
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A machine used for logging or various other forestry purposes.
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(historical) An earth-digging machine; a kind of excavator.
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(especially mining) A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock.
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Alternative form of gallet [(especially in plural) A splinter of stone inserted into the wet mortar of masonry.]
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A shop where gill is sold.
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Someone who makes a gourd container.
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A machine used in road maintenance and construction for leveling large surfaces.
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(agriculture, Canada, US) A large structure for the storage of grain. It is more specialized than a regular granary in that in uses an elevating mechanism to hold the grain in one of many different bins, and that it it designed to fill large trucks and train cars for shipping grain in bulk.
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(US, military, slang) A member of the military who is deployed on the ground rather than airborne.
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An area where lumber is sorted and piled at a sawmill.
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A vehicle that applies grit to icy roads to improve traction
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A drying shed, as for unburned tile.
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(mining, historical) A boy employed to convey coal to wagons in the working place.
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A device that feeds material into a machine.
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A unit of measurement for the volume of timber in the round, with a value equal to 1.27 cubic feet, where the cross-sectional area is taken as the square of one quarter of the circumference of the round.
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A machine that carries out hydroseeding.
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(forestry) A concentration of surface wood or fuel.
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(Britain, India, Ireland) An earthmoving machine made by the J. C. Bamford (JCB) company, or (through trademark erosion) any backhoe/endloader combination, or similar machinery.
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(mining) One who jigs; a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging.
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(mining) Synonym of jigger (“one who sorts ore by jigging”)
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(Britain) Synonym of juice box
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The log which, if removed, would free up the whole logjam.
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A stone for the lap, on which shoemakers used to beat leather.
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A machine that puts on lids.
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An oast house that uses a limekiln.
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(US) A construction toy consisting of miniature, notched logs from which log cabins and similar buildings may be made.
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(cartography) A trench dug in the ground to mark a boundary or other imaginary line.
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(transitive) To cut trees into logs.
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A flume specifically constructed to transport lumber and logs down mountainous terrain to a sawmill by using flowing water.
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A worker in the timber industry who measures the cut trees to determine the volume and quality of the wood.
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(obsolete) A small log or piece of wood.
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A worker whose occupation is to harvest trees.
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A merchant that sells finished wood products used to build objects, such as some furniture and fixtures, as well as construction and repair of complete structures such as houses, buildings, etc.
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The world of lumber and lumberjacks.
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(US) The business of felling trees for lumber.
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A person whose work is to fell trees.
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A man involved in the production or sale of lumber; a lumberjack or logger.
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A mill for processing lumber and logs; a sawmill.
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A woman involved in the production or sale of lumber; a female lumberjack or logger.
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(Canada, US, chiefly in the plural) A forest from which wood is cut.
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A facility dedicated to the preparation and/or sale of lumber.
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A machine for milking cows.
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A type of underground drain used in farm fields, in which a mole plow creates an unlined channel through clay subsoil.
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A tool for manually mixing mortar and concrete, resembling a square-bladed draw hoe with the addition of large holes in the blade.
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(geology) A cylindrical, vertical shaft that extends through a glacier and is carved by meltwater from the glacier’s surface.
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A false bottom in a grate, used for saving fuel.
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To search (mullock (“mining or ore processing waste”)) for opals.
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A conveyor that pulls split firewood away from the processor and into a waiting vehicle or pile for later handling.
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Alternative spelling of oillet [(medieval architecture) A round hole or circle with which an opening for an arrowslit terminates.]
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One who fills the molds for clay bricks.
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(archaeology) Any shallow dish found in an archaeological site.
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A kind of gimlet for making vents in casks.
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Alternative form of pit prop [A wooden beam used as a support within a mineshaft or tunnel.]
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A saw worked by two people, one standing on the log and the other beneath it, often in a pit.
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(colloquial) A tree with a straight trunk suitable for cutting into planks.
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A machine used for planting seeds.
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(forestry) Wood cut from trees of sufficient diameter to form poles, but smaller than sawtimber.
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A small door in the side of a chicken coop, normally connected to the ground via a ramp.
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Alternative spelling of pothook [An S-shaped iron hook used to suspend a cooking pot over a fire.]
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(obsolete) A worker in a pugmill.
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A bottle cap that can be opened by pulling a ring or tab and thereby loosening the cap from the bottle.
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(historical) A boy employed in a metalworks to raise the furnace door.
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(agriculture) A device for crushing clods of soil in a field.
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(in combination) A film consisting of the specified number of reels.
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(US) A stack of wood, especially cut to a regular length; also used as a measure of wood, typically four by eight feet.
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(mining) A hook-like tool used to tear away ore, rock, etc.
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A machine dragged over a bumpy road to loosen the surface in preparation for smoothing.
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An implement for levelling roads and clearing them of loose stones, etc.
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An agricultural machine used for flattening land and breaking up lumps of earth.
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The bed into which the iron from a blast furnace is run.
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A log of suitable size for sawing into lumber.
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Alternative form of sawpit. [A pit over which lumber is positioned to be sawn with a long two-handled saw (a pitsaw) by two people, one standing above the timber and the other in the pit below.]
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Alternative form of sawpit. [A pit over which lumber is positioned to be sawn with a long two-handled saw (a pitsaw) by two people, one standing above the timber and the other in the pit below.]
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The part of a tree stem that will be processed at a sawmill, rather than becoming pulpwood.
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(transitive) To process (lumber) in a sawmill.
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The operator of a sawmill.
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Wood cut from trees that is suitable for processing as sawlogs.
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A woodworking tool for roughing out concave shapes such as bowls and spoons.
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A container that has a threaded lid (rather than a cork or push-on top).
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A heavy roller to press down newly ploughed furrows.
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(obsolete) A piece of firewood four feet long.
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A trough or spout for conveying grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone.
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(petroleum mining) An open air pit into which a mixture of oil and water is pumped and left to separate so that the oil can be extracted.
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(dated) timber sawn into lengths and then split
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A device used to spread bulk material.
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(photography) A tool used to remove excess moisture from a print.
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A casing or lining of staves, especially one encircling a water wheel.
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(US, military, slang) Synonym of steel beach picnic
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A power tool that removes tree stumps by means of a rotating cutting disc that chips away the wood.
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Trees and other standing timber, treated as a commodity.
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A form of earthbag construction using layered long fabric tubes or bags filled with adobe.
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(US) A person who clears a road for lumberers in a forest or swamp.
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Alternative form of sweatbox [Any box or boxlike structure used to induce sweating, such as of hides or tobacco]
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A pot used for carrying tar.
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The act or art of covering with thatch.
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A shelf; a stand for barrels, etc.
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Alternative spelling of threshing floor [The floor of a threshing house or similar area where grain is threshed.]
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a place where wood is stored, and cut to size
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(Australia) A worker whose occupation is to harvest trees.
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Any structure, partial structure, or other item made from timber.
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(historical) A person who sells timber.
adj
(obsolete) Made of timber.
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A worker in wood, especially timber or lumber.
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A set of rings or other hanging devices, attached to a transverse bar suspended over a fire, used to hang cooking pots etc.
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A machine for digging trenches.
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Alternative form of troweller [One who digs with a trowel.]
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Timber (lumber) taken from an uncultivated forest.
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A person who digs a well.
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swarf (grit worn away by grinding)
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(automobiles, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A device used to clear rain and dirt from a windscreen; normally a pivoting arm with a rubber blade; a windshield wiper.
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A machine which winnows grain
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Something, such as a windscreen wiper, that is designed for wiping.
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(intransitive) To take or get a supply of wood.
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One who earns a living by splitting wood.
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The mechanized conversion of wood (especially trunks and branches of felled trees) to woodchips.
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The felling of trees, or the cutting of wood.
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Someone who cuts down trees or cuts and sells wood, lumberjack, woodcutter.
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A pile of cut wood to be used as fuel.
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A rick, or stack, of wood.
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A sawyer; one who saws timber.
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Alternative form of wrack line [A line of seaweed deposited on a beach at high tide]
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