barber-chairing

Verb

barber-chair (third-person singular simple present barber-chairs, present participle barber-chairing, simple past and past participle barber-chaired)

1. (US, Western) 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, Jim Deaton, Crosscut Saw Reflections in the Pacific Northwest, page 15
2. (US, Western, transitive) To split (a tree) in this manner.