1933 E. Merrick 319 The people in Mud Lake remember the lumbermen by..their timber cruises.
1949 17 July (Fiction Mag.) 8/1 Hard years in mine and timber cruise had given Flood a certain steadiness and maturity.
1956 T. H. Raddall (1957) iii. 33 Someone offered me a job on a timber cruise up in the north Ontario bush.