| 单词 | timber drive |
| 释义 | > as lemmastimber drive timber drive n. North American an organized floating of loose timber down a waterway; a quantity of timber so floated. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > transport of logs flume1784 log-rollinga1792 drive1835 river-driving1843 river drive1845 sluice-way1851 sacking1860 timber drivea1861 skidding1877 log-running1878 skid road1880 rigging1897 swamping1902 log-drivea1904 high lead1905 high-lining1919 a1861 T. Winthrop Life in Open Air (1863) 23 The head-driver of a timber-drive leads a disorderly army. 1920 Blackwood's Mag. Nov. 616/1 I caught sight..of a second log, followed by a third and yet others in an apparently endless procession. I had never encountered a timber drive before. 1957 B. Hutchison Canada 101 He had heard only vague rumors of the old timber drives in the days of Peter Emberley. < as lemmas |
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