yardern.
/ˈjɑːdə/ North American.
A kind of donkey-engine used in logging.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumbering equipment > log-hauling engine or contrivance
carry-log1775
skidder1870
go-devil1871
yarder1911
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > other types of engine > [noun] > other specific engines
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1911 Pacific Monthly Apr. 376/2 The hook-tender gives the signal to the engineer of the ‘yarder’ as the donkey~engine is termed.
1919 Camp Worker 2 June 3/3 [There were] two Ledgerwood skidders, one yarder, one swing and one roader.
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §512.10 Yarder, a donkey engine which hauls logs from where they are felled to the landing or skid road.
1955 Bush News (Port Arthur, Ont.) Feb. 7/1 About 1,100 men are involved on the haul plus 450 horses, 125 trucks,..and 4 yarders.
1979 Beautiful Brit. Columbia Fall 37 In some logging areas, mechanical grapple yarders, machines that resemble construction cranes, settle into the forest floor.
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