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Lumbering, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a horse used in skidding logs from the cutting area to the landing.
Quotations
1906
"I've been swamper, line-horse man and riggan-slinger for this layout for over 8 years an' now when a chanst comes along to get on hook-tender, they put on a bloomin' blue nose, who hasn't been on the coast over a year."
1943
. . . the line-horse days had gone beyond recall. . . .