LUMBERMAN'S SLANG

Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIII, Issue 2338, 3 February 1913, Page 2

LUMBERMAN'S SLANG

No other industry, perhaps, furnishes so many original peculiar and interesting words and phrases as the lumber industry of Canada. Timber tracts are divided into "limits" or "berths." The growing timber on a tract is a '"stand," and the contents of a "stand" are measured in "feet," a "loot" being a board one foot square by one inch thick, and not a cubic, foot. To make a survey of a stand of timber is to "cruise" it, the man who does the work is a "cruiser," and his report thereon is a'"cruise." Trees are "failed," and the man who 'falls'' them is a 'sawyer." A man who works in a camp is known as a "lumber jack" or ' ' shanty man." When going up to camp he speaks of going "' up to the shanties." Timber tracts that, have suffered the ill-effects of forest fires are said to be "broody," which is, of course, a corruption of "brule" (burnt).—"Toronto World."

"Didn't I tell you last week that I didn't want you to call on my daughter any more ?" "Yes, sir ; and I'm not." "You're not ! Why—-er~-er " "Xo, sir ; I'm not. I was calling seven nights a week then."