Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To saw into quarters. See
quartered , 4.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To saw (a log) into quarters; specif., to saw into quarters and then into boards, as by cutting alternately from each face of a quarter, to secure lumber that will warp relatively little or show the grain advantageously.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Alternative spelling of
quartersaw .
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