North American. To make (a logging-road) in a forest or ‘swamp’ by felling trees, clearing away undergrowth, etc. Also, to haul (logs) to the…

To furnish (a river or piece of water) with a boom to retain floating timber; to collect (logs or timber) in a boom. North American. See boom, n.2 4.

U.S. To drag, pull, or draw; spec. in Lumbering, to haul (logs) along the ground length-wise by means of chains or ropes.

Lumbering. To send or float (logs) down a sluice-way.

transitive. Forestry. Chiefly Canadian. To put (logs) into the water for transport.

Lumbering. To haul (logs) on or along skids; to pile or place on a skid-way. Also absol.

transitive and intransitive. To haul (logs) with a tode (tode, n.2).