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Meaning of barber-chair | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

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.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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