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1an. — Lumbering, Hist.
a piece of square timber.
Quotations
1806
One stick only remained on the rock, with Martin clinging to one end and me to the other.
1854
The rude and insecure manner in which the sticks of timber are retained in a crib, although sufficient to carry them in safety through the navigable rapids, forbids the attempt to pass them down the chûtes or higher falls.
1947
Down the Ottawa . . . floated the great square "sticks" of timber in thousands; and all along its shores lay heaps of "slash," while great gashes in the forest showed like wounds.
1964
Each March the King's Purveyor certified the number and sizes of the sticks that had been brought to the stream, "trimmed four-square and fit for rafting."
1bn. — Lumbering
a tree suitable for logging.
Quotations
1829, 1248
Sticks, or pines suitable for making masts of, are rare, and not to be found in the forest but by very intelligent lumbermen... .
1849
Our guides . . . now left us with a small present, having come so far to see our forest-camp and to try and discover "sticks" for lumber.
1863
"I daursay now, that stick's standing about a thousand years. . . ."
1cn. — Lumbering
a log.
Quotations
1849
Some "sticks" thrust others to the edge of the rapids. . . .
1907
My duties as clerk were . . . to record the number of sticks, large and small, hauled to the river each day.
1964
Winter's work [means] the total of sticks, lumber, rinds and so forth that a man can produce while living with his family away from his settlement "in the woods for the winter."
2n. — Esp. North
stick of fish, a group of ten fish skewered on a rod to be hung on a stage (def. 3) for freezing or drying for later use.
Quotations
1804
[We then pierce the fish with the point of a knife through the bone at about two inches from the tail and string them by tens of a twisted willow branch, then hang them on poles, with their heads down, in a shady place.]
1887
It is quite a common thing, when an Indian has preserved nothing for himself, to go to a Hudson's Bay Company's man and ask for "a stick of fish."
1944
Ten fish were threaded on each of the sticks--to make what is called, in North Country vernacular, "a stick of fish." Each "stick" was worth about a dollar. And the sticks were hung on the racks to freeze in the chill autumn air.
1956
One canoe we filled with sticks of fish.