DCHP-3

stringer

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

a log or timber set across a stream to serve as a foot-bridge.

Quotations

1896
With the current running so swiftly from such a deep volume of water, it was no easy thing for women to pass on flatted stringers, nor even for men.
1923
When she came to the river the bridge was gone, swept away, and only the "stringers" spanned the black flood.
2n.

a chain along which a number of snap hooks are spaced, used for stringing caught fish, each being attached through a gill to one of the hooks.

Quotations

1965
It was one of these summer dog days when the stringer was bare.
3n. — Lumbering

See quote.

See: dram

Quotations

1945
Space was left for "stringers," which were pieces of timber hauled lengthwise of the dram up upon the traverses and withed down to them; the "stringers" thus enclosed, and prevented the possible escape of, the un-withed cross tier in rough weather or in the rapids.