DCHP-1 Online
beach Lumbering 
n. a shore from which logs can be floated; a headquarters camp of a logging outfit.
- 1908 (1925) He worked . . . close to the beach, cutting timber along the frontage of his leases.
- 1942 (1946) . . . the boom camp, where the logs are dumped from the trains into salt water, is . . . likely to be referred to as "the Beach."
- 1965 He says they can do basic jobs in the woods and at the beach.
- 1908 (1925) He worked . . . close to the beach, cutting timber along the frontage of his leases.