high-grading

“You can't sell a fish at the dock that you've released, and the commercial harvest does not include short fish, high-grading, or the vibrant black market trade in illegal striped bass.”

Should MA Make Striped Bass A Protected Game Fish?

“Nor were the company executives wrong for allowing high-grading.”

Fish on the Pill?

“The article linked to the story of the Copper Strike Mine and its Hanging Tree, where men were hanged for “high-grading,” which, from what she gathered, consisted of snitching the biggest nuggets from the ore wagons.”

At Her Beck and Call

“In forests near farms and towns, practices such as burning and high-grading harvesting only the best trees have left an especially high percentage of dead or diseased trees.”

Simon & Schuster: The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States

“He had to be shown that high-grading was costing him the very thing he was trying to find.”

The Great Gray Plague

“You're high-grading and you should be using a flotation process.”

The Great Gray Plague

“I thought maybe you had been doing a little high-grading or had been up there and sneaked away some of the ore for a salting proposition.”

The Cross-Cut

“No -- I 'll give you my word I have n't been high-grading," he said at last.”

The Cross-Cut

“All three were first-rate cattlemen, their enterprise bade fair for success, hampered only by the lack of capital, occasioned by Sandy's preference for modern methods as evidenced by thoroughbred bulls, high-grading of his steers, the steadily growing patches of alfalfa and the spreading network of irrigation ditches.”

Rimrock Trail