Barberchair
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Barberchair is a noun meaning Alternative form of barber-chair.
Meaning
Alternative form of barber-chair.
More Meanings
- (rare) Alternative form of barber chair.
Example Sentences
Thomas Kelly of Kalama, killed in December 1950 near the Kalama River when a tree he was falling barberchaired and struck him.
"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.
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.
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.
Word Forms
- barberchairs
- barberchairing
- barberchaired
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include barber-chair, barberpole, elbow-chair, barbut, elbowchair, tabouret.
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