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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
in the Ottawa Valley especially, one of the small units or assemblages of logs that, in groups of 25 or 30, formed a raft of timber, used in driving from the camps to the mills or shipping points.
See: crib(def. 1a)
Quotations
1928
The rafts were made of a series of log cribs thirty feet square yoked together one behind the other. . . .