overcuttings

Noun

overcutting (plural overcuttings)

1. (rare) Excessive cutting.
   • The first recorded export of timber was in the thirteenth century when cargoes were sent via Liibeck to England and the Low Countries. Although relatively easy to exploit, the forests were in no danger of overcutting until the industrial revolution and the decade 1860-70, when the wood converting...1862, Andrew C. O'dell, The Scandinavian World, Longmans, page 86