Related Clues:

• Composition of some ladders
• It can be a lifesaver
• Part of a climber's gear
• Cleaving tool
• Tree feller's tool
• You can skip it
• Log chopper
• Cut unceremoniously
• You may skip it
• Gallows sight
• Forest feller
• Something to grind, idiomatically
• Pink slip, figuratively
• Bush whacker?
• Mountaineering tool