DCHP-3

traverse ((2)) ((n.))

Lumbering, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a log used as one of the crosspieces of the framework of a crib, dram, or other raft.

See: float(def. 1and 1854 quote),raft ((n.))(def. 2, picture, and note)

Quotations

1854
If the stream in which the timber is hauled out is not navigable for cribs, "driving" is resorted to--the loose sticks with the "floats" and "traverses" for rafting it are allowed to float down, followed by the lumbermen in canoes and along shore. . . .
1945
At the foot of the Island [were] piled rafting materials--withes, toggles, floats and traverses.
1961
The crib was a small raft made up of about twenty-five strips of timber lying parallel to one another in a frame consisting of two round logs and traverses fastened to them by wooden pins.