barber-chair

Definitions

1. To split vertically upward from the partial cut and fall or kick outward.
   US, Western
2. To split (a tree) in this manner.
   US, Western, transitive

Examples

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

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

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

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