Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

barber-chair

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.76 in modern English

Syllables: bar-ber-chair
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To split vertically upward from the partial cut and fall or kick outward.

American usage

verb

To split (a tree) in this manner.

American usage; Transitive verb

noun

Alternative form of barber chair (when used attributively).

Example Sentences

"Once when a tree barber-chaired, this was on a steep hillside, it was a dramatic display of a diving tree."
"It would have barber-chaired on him. The little ones had barber-chaired but they weren't split up very high."
"He made the first cut, the notch, and then as he made the back cut, it barber-chaired and kicked back on him."
"Cutting through a limb that's bowed under the weight of the tree will create a mini barber-chair effect and the limb could shoot out at you when you release the pressure by cutting it."

Etymology

From the resemblance of a tree split in this way to a barber chair.

Usage

American usage
Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

barber-chairs (present, singular) barber-chairing (participle, present) barber-chaired (participle, past) barber-chaired (past)

Questions

What does barber-chair mean?: To split vertically upward from the partial cut and fall or kick outward.
Where does barber-chair come from?: From the resemblance of a tree split in this way to a barber chair.

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