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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a platform, usually of heavy timbers, at the bottom of a log chute, used to break the fall of the logs as they enter the water.
Quotations
1864
At the bottom of each separate "shute" there is a wooden platform or "apron" upon which the rafters are precipitated, and so preserved from diving down under the surface by the impetus of their fall.
1942
Generally an apron of piles slopes down from it [the log dump] and the logs roll down this when they are dumped from the cars.