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bushmark
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
an identifying mark stamped on cut timber by the logging company to show ownership.
Quotations
1933
On each log was imprinted the "bush-mark" of the company, important for purposes of identification when more than one group of men are driving logs on one river.
1963
. . . years after St. Lawrence rafting ceased, one could see along the southeast coast of England, groynes built of rock elm timber, and find a link with the great river in deciphering the familiar bushmarks and culler's marks still legible upon their solid sides.