barberchair

English

Noun

barberchair (plural barberchairs)

1. (rare) Alternative form of barber chair
   1. Articulating chair.
      • 1998, David T. Warner, High-Sheriff Jim Turner: High Times of a Florida Lawman, page 120:

        I take a seat in the old timey barberchair facing the mirror and stare back at the image of myself who has become an elderly gentleman.

      • 2008, Irving N. Rothman, The barber in modern Jewish culture, page 240:

        His customer, a Greek, dozes in the barberchair while being shaved.

      • 2010, Aubrey Bart, The Bluesiana Snake Festival, page 82:

        Shushubaby found him in Molly's in a barberchair getting down on sounds.

   2. Split tree.
      • 1940, The Timberman - Volume 41, page 36:

        One day I was allin' a tree and it pulled a 'barberchair'.

      • 1989, Journal of Arboriculture, page 116:

        When the axe was the cutting tool used to chop out the face, barberchair was not as likely to occur.

      • 2014, Bert Davis, Holly Davis, Dwelling Portably 1980-1989, page 137:

        The sometimes severe lean and the easy splittability of those trees may combine to cause an occurence^[sic] known as a "barberchair".

Verb

barberchair (third-person singular simple present barberchairs, present participle barberchairing, simple past and past participle barberchaired)

1. Alternative form of barber-chair
   • 1981, Charlene Tibbetts, A. M. Tibbetts, Strategies, a Rhetoric & Reader, page 251:

     After an improperly undercut tree has toppled sideways and crushed a cat skinner on his tractor or barberchaired (split because of a heavy lean and insufficient undercut) and wiped out the man felling it, a trained OSHA employee arriving on the spot might be able to make a case for violation of this rule.

   • 1992, Stuart McLean, Welcome Home: Travels in Smalltown Canada, page 309:

     "When I first started falling, back in the sixties,” says George Walker, “I was working on this big fir and I didn't get all the meat on the back bottom side and the tree barberchaired sideways.

   • 2001, James LeMonds, Deadfall: Generations of Logging in the Pacific Northwest, page 160:

     Thomas Kelly of Kalama, killed in December 1950 near the Kalama River when a tree he was falling barberchaired and struck him.

   • 2013, David Guterson, The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind, page 125:

     I tramped out toward the sanatorium past blowdown snags and cracked green windfalls that had barberchaired and crashed to the hard earth in the night, past split branches trashed up against mounds of underbrush, mangled and twisted and the brush swept south by the cutting edge of the north storm.