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shoot ((n.))

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1†n.

a falls or rapids.

See: chute(def. 1),rapid(s),riffle ((n.))(def. 1a)

Quotations

1772

I went up the river, and visited all the traps; I brought the upper-most one down, and tailed it above the shoot.

1792

The head of the Island all a rapid with three heavy shoots which cannot be shot in going down but must carry 1/4 mile.

1836

Formerly, we used to unload at McConnell's, drag the scow up the shoot, load again. . . .

1860

By dint of a good deal of enquiry I ascertained that . . . "Bear-shoot" was so named from a bear crossing the river in sight of the crew at another "shoot" below.

2n. — Lumbering, Hist.

an artificial sluiceway down which logs or cribs may be directed to avoid rapids, falls, or other obstructions in a river.

See: slide(def. 1a)

Quotations

1868

More than 20,000,000 cubic feet of timber come down the "shoots" of the Ottawa in this manner each year.