See also: drive ((n.)) (def. 1b) river-driving stream-driving
- 1849  (1926)  The men follow them down clearing everything before them, which is called driving. Each stick they release of course is soon brought up by some other lower down, and as you advance the jams, as they are called, of course get worse and worse.
- 1883  Some of the most narrow escapes from mutilation and drowning are of everyday occurrence during driving season.
- 1958  Pulpwood cutting and hauling for this year's delivery to the papermill at Grand Falls has been brought to a close and driving is now in full swing. . . .
2 n. a method of hunting deer by which the animal is driven, usually by dogs, until it seeks refuge in a stream or lake, where, at the point of exhaustion, it is easily killed.