DCHP-3

timber drive

Lumbering
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a specific collection of logs being floated downstream at high water from the timber limits to a mill or shipping point.

See: drive ((n.))(def. 1)

Quotations

1954
"Don't you see the 'Main John' striding in the Lead? / Clear-eyed strong and fearless, kith of Bluenose breed; / First to bring a timber-drive through the wild Grand Falls. . . ."
1957
He had heard only vague rumors of the old timber drives in the days of Peter Emberley.