DCHP-3

stream-driver

Lumbering, Esp. N. B.
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

1904
The man was Steve Williams, best axe-man and stream-driver in the camp; the boy, young Steve, his eldest son, who was serving as "cookee," or assistant to the camp cook.
1949
In those days a good stream-driver was a king of the woods.