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barber chair

noun 2
barber-chair verb 2
forms 6

noun2

An articulating chair used in barbershops and salons to facilitate hair-cutting and styling or face-shaving.
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A tree which splits vertically while being felled, causing part of the tree to remain upright while the remainder of the tree falls.
- One technique that can reduce the chance of creating a barber chair is to use a bore cut. — 2005

barber-chair verb2

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(US) To split vertically upward from the partial cut and fall or kick outward.
- Once when a tree barber-chaired, this was on a steep hillside, it was a dramatic display of a diving tree. — 1998
(US) To split (a tree) in this manner.

forms

barber chaired · barber-chaired · barber chairing · barber-chairing · barber chairs · barber-chairs

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