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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
originally, that part of a river bank where logs were piled ready to be rolled into the water at spring break-up; also, the apron. Now also applied to log dumps from which logs are transported by trucks or railway cars.
Quotations
1849
I mentioned a "brow" to which the loggers dragged the logs; they roll them down this to the water's edge, where stakes confine them till the mass of timbers is ready for rafting.
1942
[Cables] are passed under the loads and hooked to the cross-log at the brow of the apron.
2n.
See quotes.
Quotations
1849
He had called on his "gang" to work on Sunday, and "cut down the brow" to let the logs into the river. . . .
1896
In lumbermen's parlance, the logs of the winter's chopping, hauled and piled on the river-bank where they can conveniently be launched into the water upon the breaking up of the ice, are termed collectively "a brow of logs."