barberchairとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

barberchair (三人称単数 現在形 barberchairs, 現在分詞 barberchairing, 過去形および過去分詞形 barberchaired)

1. Alternative form of barber-chair
   • 1981, Charlene Tibbetts, A. M. Tibbetts, Strategies, a Rhetoric & Reader, page 251:

     After an improperly undercut tree has toppled sideways and crushed a cat skinner on his tractor or barberchaired (split because of a heavy lean かつ 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.

   • 1992, Stuart McLean, Welcome Home: Travels in Smalltown Canada, page 309:

     "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.

   • 2001, James LeMonds, Deadfall: Generations of Logging in the Pacific Northwest, page 160:

     Thomas Kelly of Kalama, killed in December 1950 near the Kalama River when a tree he was falling barberchaired and struck him.

   • 2013, David Guterson, The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind, page 125:

     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.

語源

From the resemblance of a tree split in this way to a barber chair.

動詞

barber-chair (三人称単数 現在形 barber-chairs, 現在分詞 barber-chairing, 過去形および過去分詞形 barber-chaired)

1. (Western US, of a tree being felled) To split vertically upward from the partial cut and fall or kick outward.
   • 1998, Jim Deaton, Crosscut Saw Reflections in the Pacific Northwest, page 15:

     Once when a tree barber-chaired, this was on a steep hillside, it was a dramatic display of a diving tree.

   • 2000, Lloyd Keeland, The Lusty Life of Loon Lake Lloyd, page 251:

     It would have barber-chaired on him. The little ones had barber-chaired but they weren't split up very high.

   • 2014, Jesse W. Thompson, Samson & Delilah's Haunted B & B:

     He made the first cut, the notch, and then as he made the back cut, it barber-chaired and kicked back on him.

2. (Western US, transitive) To split (a tree) in this manner.

名詞

barber-chair

1. Alternative form of barber chair (when used attributively).
   • 2011, Michael Levatino, Audrey Levatino, The Joy of Hobby Farming:

     Cutting through a limb that's bowed under the weight of the tree will create a mini barber-chair effect and the limb could shoot out at you when you release the pressure by cutting it.