Related Clues:

• Abruptly dismissed
• Emulated a lumberjack
• Cut from the staff
• Rough-__ (unfinished)
• Rough-___ (unfinished)
• Gave a pink slip
• Made the fir fly?
• Cut down, as a tree
• Discharged, slangily
• Axed down
• Gave the heave-ho
• Shaped with an axe
• In a split way
• Rough (unrefined)- --
• Abruptly purged from the payroll