straw-push

Lumbering, Slang

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the assistant to the foreman of a logging crew, construction gang, etc.

See: push

Quotations

1964

The straw-push . . . instructed me not to come out after lunch and had me wait upon the superintendant.