timber jam

Lumbering

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a massing together of logs, as in a river drive, as a result of some obstruction to their forward progress.

See: jam ((n.))(def. 2)

Quotations

1887

. . . on one of the huge timber jams which so often occurred we passed close to a wolverene. . . .

1910

Then, crossing a timber jam on the frozen bed of the Teelee, the sled suffered a wrenching capsize. . . .