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Siwash logger Lumbering, Pacific Coast, Slang

• a crew member or owner of a small tugboat that collects logs broken loose from booms, getting a commission on each log returned to its owners.

  See also: beachcomber (def. 2)  

  • 1908  "I'm a Siwash logger, am I? Well I am a Siwash logger."