half-chopped

Updated: May 7, 2025

Looking a little farther, down into the green recess where stood Robert Hagburn's house, he saw that young man, looking very pale, with his arm in a sling sitting listlessly on a half-chopped log of wood which was not likely soon to be severed by Robert's axe.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life