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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1an. — Lumbering
originally, that part of a river bank where logs were piled ready to be rolled into the water at spring break-up; also, the apron. Now also applied to log dumps from which logs are transported by trucks or railway cars.
Quotations
1896
A brow of logs is a "landing" when the logs were piled from the water's edge. A landing may be either a "rough-and-tumble" or a "skidded" landing.
1942
"If we had to start on that new tree with bad tongs we'd have a pile on the landing that we wouldn't see the bottom of in weeks."
1963
These landings are strips along the river banks from which all trees and stumps have been removed, so that logs can be unloaded and put into the river without so much as a rose brier to obstruct the work.
1bn. — Lumbering
See quote.
Quotations
1942
LANDING. An area of ground directly around the base of a spar tree, where logs are piled to be loaded on cars.
2n. — Fisheries
the bringing into port and discharging of a catch of fish.
Quotations
1954
While a few "bankers" of Newfoundland ownership operated on the Banks, all landings were made in Nova Scotia ports.
1958
One black cod landing last week, the Capella I with 16,000 pounds of black cod.