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cabin dram Hist.

• in rafting lumber, that portion of a large raft on which the rafters' shanty and cook-house or the foreman's quarters were built.

  See also: dram  

  • 1829  [On these rafts they have a fire for cooking . . . and places to sleep in. . . .]
  • 1874  A shanty is built of pine boards on the middle of the dram and the dram thus honoured is called the Cabin Dram: the cook's house adjoins the shanty, and in it are stored barrels of pork, biscuit and bread.
  • 1945  The raft ran the first two rapids as a unit; for the others the drams were separated out and went through one after another, the foreman's "cabin dram" leading.