DCHP-3

lock-stick

Lumbering
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

the log which when released will free a jam.

See: key-log(def. 1)

Quotations

1926
Real peril there was in "jams" at unslided chutes, where the timber piled up to a great height, and the lock-sticks had to be cut to set the jam going.