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Lumbering, Ottawa Valley, Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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an artificial sluiceway down which logs or cribs may be directed to avoid rapids, falls, or other obstructions in a river.
Quotations
1854
One of the disasters to which lumbermen are subjected in driving their timber, and one which induces them to go to great expense in forming a crib navigation where it can be obtained, is what is called a "jam."
1854
In this simple manner . . . are formed the "cribs," one of which will carry all the provisions and many men in safety down any navigable rapid or crib slide.