| 单词 | back-scarf |
| 释义 | > as lemmasback-scarf 2. New Zealand. Forestry. To cut a scarf in (timber). Also back-scarf, belly-scarf (see quot. 1928). Cf. scarf n.5 ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > lumber [verb (intransitive)] > make cut or notch scarf1899 1899 J. Bell In Shadow of Bush xiv. 83 The smaller trees..had been ‘scarfed’, or cut partly through in readiness, and skilfully, so that each, when struck, might again in its turn strike and bring down another. 1904 ‘G. B. Lancaster’ Sons o' Men 164 He..scarfed the timber for the saw. 1928 P. T. Kenway Pioneering in Poverty Bay v. 38 He will ‘belly-scarf’ and ‘back-scarf’ the lot, that is to say he will cut about a third through on both the lower and higher sides. < as lemmas |
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