Historical clue formulations

• Cut, as logs — 2025-03-18
• Sunk one's teeth into? — 2022-08-20
• Worked in a wood shop, say — 2021-01-07
• Cut, as lumber — 2020-03-04
• Cut — 2015-04-26
• Cut a cord, say — 2008-09-07
• ___-off (shortened) — 2003-07-13
• Lumbered, in a way — 2002-10-30
• Did some carpentry — 2001-10-24
• Worked in a lumber mill — 2001-03-12
• Was a cutup? — 1996-04-29
• Cut (off) — 1994-12-28