DCHP-3

logging bee

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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v.

a gathering of neighbors to clear land by logging.

See: log ((v.))(def 1.),log-bee,log-rolling(def. 1b)

Quotations

1832
The timber of 4 or 5 acres will (through the kind medium of the logging Bee) be drawn off the ground in a single day.
1897
Some of these [sports in 1820] were . . . house and barn raisings, logging bees and sugar making, and lastly, camp- meetings.
1961
. . . he and his neighbors would organize a logging bee, heaping up the logs in big piles and then setting fire to them.