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choker Lumbering 
n. See 1942 quote. See pictures at high-lead system and skyline.
See also: high-lead system skyline
- 1925 Lights go out at 9 p.m., which means that we all should be in bed recuperating our strength to "wrestle chokers" on the following day.
- 1942 (1946) CHOKER. A short length of heavy cable coupled to the main cable (sky line or mainline) and having a hook attached at the free end. The hook is passed under the log and brought round to hook back on to its cable, thus making a running noose which is drawn tight by the mainline when the engineer starts to bring in the turn.
- 1963 In his salad days, before the War, the irrepressible Grogan took a whirl at setting chokers at Cumeshaw Inlet in the Queen Charlottes.
- 1925 Lights go out at 9 p.m., which means that we all should be in bed recuperating our strength to "wrestle chokers" on the following day.