rafting-channel

Lumbering, Obs.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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such a side channel used as a route for rafts and cribs of timber.

See: snye(def. 1b)

Quotations

1827

Passing the east end of Merrick's Mill-dam . . . is a snie, which has been converted into a rafting channel.