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log drive 
n. a specific collection of logs being floated downstream at high water from the timber limits to a mill or shipping point.
See also: drive ((n.)) (def. 1)
- 1894 In due time the chains were hitched to them and they were drawn to the shore, where they were canthooked upon the ice and left to await the spring freshets and the log drive.
- 1964 As a boy in Buctouche, Kent County, he had often heard the old lumbermen talk of Big John Glasier, who was the first man to bring a log drive over Grand Falls.
- 1894 In due time the chains were hitched to them and they were drawn to the shore, where they were canthooked upon the ice and left to await the spring freshets and the log drive.