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side-push

Lumbering, Esp. West, Slang

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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See second quote.

See: push,strip boss

Quotations

1942

Things are in a bit of a jackpot up there and it needs a good side-push to straighten it out.

1942

[The hooktender] is sometimes called the "side-push," implying that he is sub-foreman in charge of the whole operation of one "side" of a multiple-operation camp.