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deck ((n.)) Lumbering 
1 n. a pile of logs ready for driving or hauling.
See also: log-pile
- 1928 The break-out was to begin the next day. Far up at the end of the trail, which turned away from the river at the first deck of logs, stood the boss, superintending the construction and placing of a huge skidway which was to extend from the foot of the rollway down to the water's edge and down which the logs would go thundering and plunging . . . .
2 n. See log deck.
See also: log deck
- 1947 . . . guided by the sawyer, it [the steam nigger] tosses the [log] . . . like a match stick from the deck to the carriage.
- 1928 The break-out was to begin the next day. Far up at the end of the trail, which turned away from the river at the first deck of logs, stood the boss, superintending the construction and placing of a huge skidway which was to extend from the foot of the rollway down to the water's edge and down which the logs would go thundering and plunging . . . .