go on timber

Lumbering, Obs.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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move on to the logs floating downstream in a drive (def. 1a), especially during a jam (def. 2).

See: drive ((n.))(def. 1a),jam ((n.))(def. 2)

Quotations

1883

In his easy going way . . . he hopped about from stick to stick . . . no doubt thinking it no great matter after all "to go on timber."