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Lumbering, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a work-crew of loggers (def. 1).
See: logger(def. 1)
Quotations
1832
Immediately after breakfast, they divide into three gangs; one of which cuts down the trees, another hews them, and the third is employed with the oxen in hauling the timber. . . .
1854
Three men and a cook form a "gang";--two cut down the tree, line and score it, that is, split out the outer slabs so as to make it four-sided. . . .
1945
A gang was counted upon to "make" about 30,000 cubic feet in a season.
1964
Log jams on the Ottawa which held up the drive and filled taverns with rival gangs of Irish and French, were almost certain to brew trouble.