DCHP-3

river-driving

Lumbering
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

the process or practice of floating logs downstream at high water.

See: driving(def. 1)

Quotations

1913
It was a river-driving and lumber case for which many witnesses had been called. . . .
1948
In the Summer months concrete "aprons" could be constructed at the worst of these bad spots, and other improvements made, that would make river driving a safer and easier task.