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Barber chair means (rare) Alternative form of barber chair..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(rare) Alternative form of barber chair..
After an improperly undercut tree has toppled sideways and crushed a cat skinner on his tractor or barberchaired (split because of a heavy lean and insufficient undercut) and wiped out the man felling it, a trained OSHA employee arriving on the spot might be able to make a case for violation of this rule.
"When I first started falling, back in the sixties,” says George Walker, “I was working on this big fir and I didn't get all the meat on the back bottom side and the tree barberchaired sideways.
Thomas Kelly of Kalama, killed in December 1950 near the Kalama River when a tree he was falling barberchaired and struck him.
I tramped out toward the sanatorium past blowdown snags and cracked green windfalls that had barberchaired and crashed to the hard earth in the night, past split branches trashed up against mounds of underbrush, mangled and twisted and the brush swept south by the cutting edge of the north storm.
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Barber chair means (rare) Alternative form of barber chair..
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After an improperly undercut tree has toppled sideways and crushed a cat skinner on his tractor or barberchaired (split because of a heavy lean and insufficient undercut) and wiped out the man felling it, a trained OSHA employee arriving on the spot might be able to make a case for violation of this rule.
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