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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a collection of boomed logs rigged for towing.
Quotations
1851
I wish he mey [sic] come with the first Tow in cribs.
1891
The logs . . . were now handed over to the care of a company which gathered them up into "tows" and with powerful steamers dragged them down the river until the sorting grounds were reached. . . .
1912
As I stand watching the bridge, one section of it opens to let a tug through with a tow of logs.
1965
. . . logs totalling about 1,000,000 board feet . . . were lost from a tow early today.