Siwash logger

Lumbering, Pacific Coast, Slang

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a crew member or owner of a small tugboat that collects logs broken loose from booms, getting a commission on each log returned to its owners.

See: beachcomber(def. 2)

Quotations

1908

"I'm a Siwash logger, am I? Well I am a Siwash logger."