beach

Lumbering

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a shore from which logs can be floated; a headquarters camp of a logging outfit.

Quotations

1908

He worked . . . close to the beach, cutting timber along the frontage of his leases.

1942

. . . the boom camp, where the logs are dumped from the trains into salt water, is . . . likely to be referred to as "the Beach."

1965

He says they can do basic jobs in the woods and at the beach.