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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the activity of following after a log drive to gather stray logs and get them through to the mill.
See: rear
Quotations
1957
We arrived at Camp 3-G, which is staffed by about 10 men during the drive months . . . and about 25 men during the Fall rearing operations.
1963
. . . the last men with their cook will form the nucleus of the "rearing" crew--that is, the crew which will bring up the rear of the drive, taking care to roll into the water any logs left stranded on the banks. . . .