DCHP-3

cabin dram

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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in rafting lumber, that portion of a large raft on which the rafters' shanty and cook-house or the foreman's quarters were built.

See: dram

Quotations

1829
[On these rafts they have a fire for cooking . . . and places to sleep in. . . .]
1874
A shanty is built of pine boards on the middle of the dram and the dram thus honoured is called the Cabin Dram: the cook's house adjoins the shanty, and in it are stored barrels of pork, biscuit and bread.
1945
The raft ran the first two rapids as a unit; for the others the drams were separated out and went through one after another, the foreman's "cabin dram" leading.