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Lumbering, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a detachable part of a timber raft, comprising about 25 cribs, each of 20-25 logs or square timbers bound together; dram.
Quotations
1863
. . . the raft was infantine compared with its congeners of the great lake and the St. Lawrence. A couple of bonds lashed together--that was all; and a bond containeth twenty cribs, and a crib containeth a variable amount of beams, according to the lumberman's arithmetical tables.
1961
These cribs were again bound together, though in a manner easily to be unloosed, in "drams" or "bands" . . . each dram containing about 25 cribs.