| 单词 | high-line logging |
| 释义 | > as lemmashigh-line logging 2. Forestry. In logging: an overhead cable attached high above the ground to a spar tree, used to haul logs out of the forest. Also attributive in high-line logging. Cf. high lead n. at high adj. and n.2 Compounds 4. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumbering equipment > overhead cable skyline1915 high line1920 1920 Herald Gospel Liberty 1 July 638/1 Our own ‘Sky Pilot’..told us something of the ‘High Lead’ or ‘High Line’ used in bringing down the big logs of the forest. 1940 Oregon: End of Trail (Federal Writers' Project) 369 Sharp declivities, now denuded of spruce, cedar, and hemlock, indicate the site of former high-line logging. 1964 H. O'Connor Revol. in Seattle iii. 59 In the larger operations there could be several high-lines operating in various parts of the forest and feeding into the railroad. 2001 J. L. Luskin Dear Cec! (new ed.) (e-book, accessed 26 June 2013) xxvii Loggers felled trees, chain hooked them to the ‘drag line’ to be snaked to the ‘high line’. < as lemmas |
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