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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a man who takes part in the process of floating or driving logs.
See: driver(def. 1)
Quotations
1953
All winter they had been reaping the timber harvest and the most colourful of them, the river hogs, steered the logs . . . into the main stream of the North Saskatchewan when the breakup came.
1956
But he seemed a friendly sort of river-hog, for he was grinning affably.
1964
One may see a visitor with a misty look in his eye; an old blacksmith, top loader, barn boss, teamster, cookie or river hog who has returned to a fleeting glimpse of an era long gone by.