单词 | rafting works |
释义 | > as lemmasrafting works rafting works n. (in the logging industry) a place where logs are stored. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > site for storing floating timber timber-pond1840 rafting works1886 holding ground1957 1886 Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 10 July The Beef Slough company which has closed its rafting works on account of low water paid out over $16,000 to 600 men Friday. 1931 Sun (Baltimore) 20 Mar. 10/6 The Mississippi Logging Company..maintained a boarding house..on the way to the rafting works at West Newton. 2003 J. O. Anfinson River We have Wrought iv. 97 The company moved its rafting works to West Newton Chute, 10 miles downstream and on the Minnesota side of the river, meaning it had to float its logs across the river. < as lemmas |
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