hung-up

Lumbering

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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adj.

of the movement of logs, slowed down or stopped en route from forest to mill.

See: hang up(def. 1)

Quotations

1942

[Caption] . . . the load is likely to become hung-up on a stump with a protruding root. . . .

1957

Along the shore are clumps of hung-up logs which will be reared through in the Fall.