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timber slide
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.
Quotations
1836
This improvement with many others (amongst the rest a timber slide at the Chats,) the country owes to the enterprise of George Buchannan, Esq. of Arnprior, having been erected under his direction and at his expence.
1889
The great caldron of the Chaudiere, in which the strongest dram would be broken like matchwood, is passed by means of the Government timber slides--long sloping canals, with timber sides and bottoms, down which the drams glide with immense rapidity.
1963
At Richmond Landing on the Ottawa River just where loggers later erected timber slides, the ancient scenes will be created.