kilhig U.S. Logging.
(ˈkɪlhɪg)
Also killig.
[Origin unknown.]
A short stout pole used as a lever or brace to direct the fall of a tree.
| 1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (U.S. Dept. Agric. Bureau Forestry) Kilhig, a short stout pole used as a lever or brace to direct the fall of a tree (N.W.). 1913 R. C. Bryant Logging 83 Kilhig or sampson... It consists of a pole..either sharpened or armed on one end with a spike. 1971 F. C. Ford-Robertson Terminol. Forest Sci. 148/2 Killig (USA), Pushpole (Cw), a stout pole, sometimes notched into the tree stem at one end and braced against the base of a peavey handle at the other, used to push a small tree manually in the desired direction of fall. |