wooding stage

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a place where wood-burning steamers took on wood for fuel.

Quotations

1888

We stopped to-day in the steamer at a wooding-stage, and to my surprise, were hailed from the bank. . . .

1928

Hardly were we well away from the wooding stop than a cry went up from a gesticulative half-breed that his partner "Frenchy" was missing.