river-boss

Lumbering

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the logger in charge of a drive (def. 1).

See: drive ((n.))(def. 1)

Quotations

1895

[He] was startled and sorry when it turned out that Dugard, the river-boss, was married.

1912

. . . the river "boss" and his "gang" . . . came with their cant-dogs and pike-poles and cork-shoes. . . .

1931

"Ah! You have run logs with them. In what capacity?" "I have been a river boss."