hand-split

• Early in their marriage Myrtle and Leslie built their first house of hand-split boards from two old-growth fir trees lying on the site of their "new house."
• It was built of logs and roofed with rough cedar shingles hand-split on the spot. —  The Gold Trail
• Its walls were of undressed pine logs, and it was roofed with cedar shingles hand-split. —  The Gold Trail
• It also draws attention to the difference between the hand-split shingles of those days and the machine-sawed ones of the present. —  The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five
• The little house was likewise a victim of the prevailing necromancy, for its rough, hand-split and weatherbeaten shingles were now a shimmering olive-silver. —  'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands

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