DCHP-3

drive ((v.))

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1av.

move a mass of logs by floating them downstream at high water in the spring; manage or control logs being moved in this way.

See: run ((n.))(def. 3)

Quotations

1848
They obtain their living by "driving" logs, and are as happy as they are ignorant.
1917
Most of the logs to supply these mills must now be brought from distances of fifty to a hundred and fifty miles . . . often requiring two years to drive them.
1960
A series of slides along the Ottawa River completed the system, making it a matter of only six weeks to drive from Bytown to Quebec.
1bv.

take part in the activity of driving logs on a river.

Quotations

1854
[Though] there is very little sympathy among lumbermen . . . necessity compels them often to "drive" together.
1964
His father and grandfather drove the Petawawa and Madawaska rivers for men like Gillies and Booth.
2v.

take part in drive hunting.

Quotations

1832
This is in my estimation an unsportsmanlike method, and is effected in the vicinity of the lakes, by driving the deer with dogs, who pursue the animal through the woods, till he is obliged to take refuge in the water. There a canoe is waiting; and as the hunted deer comes bounding along, and boldly dashes into the lake . . . [and when the deer weakens from fatigue, he is killed].
1853
Deer-hunting is a very exciting sport; but I prefer still-hunting (or deer-stalking, as it is called in the Highlands of Scotland) to driving them into the lakes and rivers with hounds.
3v.

cut a road through a forest.

Quotations

1849
. . . to "drive" this new road through a wilderness, would cost at least £30,000, and then, they thought, it never could be kept clear in winter.
4v. — West

move cattle or other livestock from one place to another.

Quotations

1955
We would be driving cattle until well in January, through an uninhabited, little-known country.
5v.

See quote.

Quotations

1915
To drive beaver is to hunt them by driving them from their cabins beneath the ice.