A person employed in rafting timber.

North American. A person who transports logs to a sawmill by floating them down a river. Cf. drive, v. 9d. Now historical.

A person who works on a river drive.

the group of loggers that manages the rear of a log drive, freeing stranded logs to rejoin the main stream.

One who loads (in various senses); a carrier (obsolete or dialect); a man who stands on the top of a wagon, a haystack, etc., and arranges the hay…

(a), a lumberman who hauls logs along the skids to the skidway; (b) a tractor or other machine for skidding logs.

In transitive senses of the verb.

North American slang. = river-driver, n. Cf. river pig n. at river, n.1 compounds 3, river rat, n. 3b.

spec. = river-driver, n. Cf. river hog, n. 2. Now rare.

= river-driver, n.; cf. river hog, n. 2.

= rear crew n. at rear, adj.2 n.2compounds 2.