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yarding

yarding

8.9
Moving cut logs to a central collection point
  • noun
  • Specialized
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  • The yarding of logs was completed before sunset.

Examples

  • Modern machinery has made yarding much faster and safer for workers.

  • After yarding was complete, the logs were loaded onto trucks for transport.

  • The team spent hours yarding logs from the forest to the collection site.

  • They are skilled in yarding techniques for efficient logging.

  • The team spent hours yarding logs from the forest to the collection site.

  • Modern machinery has made yarding much faster and safer for workers.

  • After yarding the trees, they stacked the logs at the collection point.

How Far

yarding
  • Specialized
8.9
hauling
11 2.6
forwarding
18 3.2

Surface Forms

yarding singular
yardings plural

Morphology

yarding = yard (transparent) = yard + ing

A regular nominalization of the verb 'yard' used in forestry to mean moving logs, so the derivation is transparent.

Etymology

Yarding also comes from yard, meaning a 'place to store things', as in a lumberyard. In logging, yarding is the work of moving cut logs to that central yard so they can be collected and loaded.