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barber-chairs

barber-chairs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of barber-chair.

Meaning of barber-chair

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.

Questions about barber-chairs

What is barber-chairs the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Barber-chairs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of barber-chair.

Words near barber-chairs in the dictionary

  1. barber's shops
  2. barber's sign
  3. barber-chair
  4. barber-chaired
  5. barber-chairing
  6. barber-chairs
  7. barber-shop
  8. barber-shops
  9. barbera
  10. barberas
  11. barberchair

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