DCHP-3

log pen

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n. — Obs.

a barrier of logs or other timbers linked by chains and serving to restrain or enclose floating logs, pulpwood, etc.

See: boom ((1)) ((n.))(def. 1)

Quotations

1805
They are cut on the banks of the river Welland, and floated down to its mouth, where there is a reservoir made to receive them by a chain of log pens, as they are called
2n. — Obs.

a structure of logs forming a kind of cache.

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

Quotations

1896
Several families were "starving" before February, that is, either living on hares, owls, martens and other fur-bearing animals from the traps, or stealing from the log pens in which their more industrious neighbors had cached their fish along the lake shore.
3n.

a kind of trap.

Quotations

<i>c</i>1902
As the rabbits decreased, Koot set out many traps for the bob-cats now reckless with hunger, steel-traps and dead-falls and pits and log pens with a live grouse clucking inside.