kilhign.
/ˈkɪlhɪɡ/ U.S. Logging.
A short stout pole used as a lever or brace to direct the fall of a tree.
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1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 41 Kilhig, a short stout pole used as a lever or brace to direct the fall of a tree (N.W.).
1913 R. C. Bryant Logging 83 Kilhig or sampson... It consists of a pole..either sharpened or armed on one end with a spike.
1971 F. C. Ford-Robertson Terminol. Forest Sci. 148/2 Killig (USA), Pushpole (Cw), a stout pole, sometimes notched into the tree stem at one end and braced against the base of a peavey handle at the other, used to push a small tree manually in the desired direction of fall.
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