lay ((v.))

Lumbering

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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haul (logs) from the cutting site and pile them ready for dumping into the river in the spring.

Quotations

1896

They . . . with yoke chain and crotch, could lay many pieces [of lumber] a day on the river.

1912

"I laid my logs on it last winter," he went on.