单词 | pit-sawing |
释义 | pit-sawingn. The cutting of timber with a pit-saw. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > timber cutting snaking1883 pit-sawing1898 1898 A. M. Earle Home Life in Colonial Days iv. 76 All such boards were..used many times to avoid sawing others by the tedious and weary process of pit-sawing. 1935 J. S. Illick Outl. Gen. Forestry vii. 51 Pit-sawing continued until as late as 1860 in Steuben County, New York. 1985 Eng. World-wide 6 136 Men would give their services in the cutting of pine trees, pit-sawing of timber, splitting of shingles, etc. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1898 |
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