log slide

Lumbering, East

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an artificial sluiceway down which logs or cribs may be directed to avoid rapids, falls, or other obstructions in a river.

See: slide(def. 1a)

Quotations

1958

New activity started in 1852, when a log slide was built at Shawinigan Falls. . . .

1961

The cribs were suitable in size for sending down log slides; the drams were sent down rapids.