DCHP-3

cadge crib

[? < cadge, v., carry, transport]
Lumbering, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a raft equipped with a windlass driven by horse-power and having the function of drawing, by means of a cable, booms of logs to a desired anchoring spot.

Quotations

1947
Mort once saw McCoshen getting some of his square timber through the Narrows. His "cadge crib" was a raft worked by horses, and it took a long time to drag the heavy booms out through the East Arm to the flowing waters of the Openongo River.