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lair Lumbering, Obs. 
n. a kind of portable bunk used by lumbermen on a drive.
- 1829 On these rafts they have . . . places to sleep in, formed of broad strips of bark, resembling the half of a cylinder, the arch about four feet high, and in length about eight. To these beds, or lairs, trams or handles are attached, so that they can be moved about from crib to crib, or from crib to shore, as circumstances render it necessary.
- 1892 When they are passing a breaking-up rapid, they live in these lairs, until the raft is new withed, and fixed on the still-water below.
- 1829 On these rafts they have . . . places to sleep in, formed of broad strips of bark, resembling the half of a cylinder, the arch about four feet high, and in length about eight. To these beds, or lairs, trams or handles are attached, so that they can be moved about from crib to crib, or from crib to shore, as circumstances render it necessary.