tie-camp

Lumbering

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a camp for the cutting and shaping of ties.

See: tie

Quotations

1881

About fifty choppers arrived by Wednesday's train; en route for the tie camps.

1959

Now even the native son may be scotch with his money . . . be gyped by the confidence-man (or work gippo in a tie-camp). . . .