timber chute

Lumbering, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an artificial sluiceway down which logs or cribs may be directed to avoid rapids, falls, or other obstructions in a river.

See: slide(def. 1a)

Quotations

1933

At some timber chutes, notably that at the Cedars on the St. Lawrence, rafts and men were sometimes temporarily submerged during their progress.

1965

[Caption] A vestige of the early lumbering period: old timber chute at Moose Bay, Crooked Lake.