When I think about it, about half of the falling/logging terminology I know are terms that might or would be considered politicaly or sexually incorect. Not sure what that says about us as a group.:jester:
There are at least several states and a few different countries that have their names included in falling or logging methods. Some are good methods and some not. Some are just used to describe a naturally occuring feature of a tree.
Woops, sorry, I just realized the original question was about "arborist" terms and that leaves me out. I bet the arborist's out there have a bunch of derogatory logger connected terms that they wont mention because of a fear of offending us easily offended logger types.
Here is a "safe" one. The anti-theft position. Which is when you are hung up (bar is stuck) in a big log or you misjudged a lean when felling a tree and your saw is stuck in the backcut.