DCHP-1 Online
brow Lumbering 
1 n. originally, that part of a river bank where logs were piled ready to be rolled into the water at spring break-up; also, the apron. Now also applied to log dumps from which logs are transported by trucks or railway cars.
See also: apron landing (def. 1a)
- 1849 I mentioned a "brow" to which the loggers dragged the logs; they roll them down this to the water's edge, where stakes confine them till the mass of timbers is ready for rafting.
- 1942 (1946) [Cables] are passed under the loads and hooked to the cross-log at the brow of the apron.
2 n. See quotes.
- 1849 He had called on his "gang" to work on Sunday, and "cut down the brow" to let the logs into the river. . . .
- 1896 (n.d.) In lumbermen's parlance, the logs of the winter's chopping, hauled and piled on the river-bank where they can conveniently be launched into the water upon the breaking up of the ice, are termed collectively "a brow of logs."
- 1849 I mentioned a "brow" to which the loggers dragged the logs; they roll them down this to the water's edge, where stakes confine them till the mass of timbers is ready for rafting.