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schoolmarm tree
noun
a piece of firewood where two trunks have grown togetherand crossed; also, the tree itself CANADA- School marm -- a forked log or tree. — Robert Swanson, Rhymes of a Western Logger, p. 54, 1942
- The “schoolmarm” is a piece of firewood where two trunks have grown together and crossed to form a crotch, so called because “you’ll never get them apart.” The phrase “schoolmarm tree” occurs in Howard O’Hagan’s novel of the Canadian West, Tay John. — Lewis Poteet, The South Shore Phrase Book, p. 96, 1999
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