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"ref": "1998, Jim Deaton, Crosscut Saw Reflections in the Pacific Northwest, page 15:",
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"ref": "2014, Jesse W. Thompson, Samson & Delilah's Haunted B & B:",
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"(Western US, of a tree being felled) To split vertically upward from the partial cut and fall or kick outward."
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