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timber-yard
Lumbering, Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
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: timber cove
Quotations
1829
When at Quebec, I went and saw the Timber-yard on the Isle of Orleans. . . .