U.S., etc. An artificial channel for a stream of water to be applied to some industrial use.

U.S. The action of rolling logs to any required spot; a meeting for co-operation in doing this.

Chiefly North American. Now historical. The action or an act of transporting logs or timber to a sawmill by floating them down a river; = log-drive n.

The action of gathering and driving floating logs down a river to a sawmill. Cf. drive, v. 9d.

The action or an act of gathering and driving floating logs down a river to a sawmill. Cf. drive, n. 1.

A channel or waterway fed or controlled by means of a sluice or sluices. Also in Lumbering (see quot. 1851).

The action of sack, v.1, in various senses.

an organized floating of loose timber down a waterway; a quantity of timber so floated.

Lumbering. (See quot. 1878.) Also attributive in skidding-team, skidding-tongs.

the operation of setting logs afloat down the side-streams, or conveying logs to the saw-mill; the operation of sending logs down a river.

(a) a way or track formed of skids (2d) along which logs are hauled; (b) North American, originally a downtown area frequented by loggers; now gen. =…

Originally and chiefly North American. In logging: the system of cables, hooks, chains, etc., used in hauling logs. Frequently with modifying word…

(see drive, n. 3a).

a high overhead cable used in the transport of logs from a logging site; = high line, n. 2; frequently attributive.

the use of high lines (sense 2) in logging.