mulnette ((n.))

[origin uncertain]

Lumbering, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a kind of raft made of square timbers.

Quotations

1859

The piles of timber which they land on the shore above the influence of the tide they call mulnettes.

1896

Tows, cribs, mullnets and loose in single [pieces], almost all forms were used to get the pieces floated to form the rafts for market.