Meaning

2 senses
  1. (US, Western)To split vertically upward from the partial cut and fall or kick outward.

  2. (US, Western, transitive)To split (a tree) in this manner.

Origin

From the resemblance of a tree split in this way to a barber chair.

From the resemblance of a tree split in this way to a barber chair.

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Forms

barber-chairs, barber-chairing, barber-chaired, barber-chaired
Base formbarber-chair · to barber-chair
3rd person singularbarber-chairs
Present participlebarber-chairing
Past simplebarber-chaired
Past participlebarber-chaired

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybarber-chair
he, she, itbarber-chairs

Past simpleLesson

all personsbarber-chaired

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave barber-chaired
he, she, ithas barber-chaired

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill barber-chair

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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