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rafting up

Lumbering, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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fashioning (timber) into a raft (def. 2).

See: raft ((n.))(def. 2),raft ((v.))(def. 2c)

Quotations

1883

The rafting-up process is an arduous and stirring piece of work. . . .

1926

I loved the river life . . . the "drive" in spring and the "rafting up" at Arne Prior or elsewhere, the timber being formed into cribs, securely withed and chained, and united into enormous rafts. . . .

1945

This very brief description of the work of "rafting up" timber has taken no account of the human side. . . .