log dump†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a place where logs are piled, as on the bank of a river, by a railway siding, road, etc., ready for moving out to the mill.

See: dump ((n.))(def. 2)

Quotations

1942

A log dump, or "the dump," is commonly a trestle built over the water.

1966

[He] said lumber camps and log dumps should be 600 feet from all lakes and waterways. . . .