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timber cove

Lumbering, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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one of a number of coves on the St. Lawrence River, near Quebec, where square timbers, staves, spars, etc. for export were stored in booms for trans-shipping after being rafted down from the lumber camps.

See: cove(def. 1),timber-ground,timber-yard

Quotations

1853

. . . she is content with the North shore timber coves. . . .

1945

The Quebec timber coves were the goal of all timber which came down the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence, and they were the starting point for the export of that timber to Britain.