bugwood
(US, Appalachia) Cutover scrap lumber.
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#1·Apr 27, 2026US
(US, Appalachia) Cutover scrap lumber.
Horton and the others had hardly assimilated the lessons of Wilder when the Grundy County bugwood cutters struck. Bugwood, knotty crooks of trees which can be found in any cut-over forest, is unfit for sawing into lumber, but it was harv…
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