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lumber camp

• a camp at which logging (def. 2) is carried on.

  See also: logging (def. 2)  logging camp  lumbering  

  • See note at lumbering (def. 1).

  • 1872  Our stock of provisions again becoming small, I sent off . . . to a lumber camp distant about thirty miles.
  • 1903  After a long hard winter working as a cook in a lumber camp I struck for Peace River country where I now am, knocking life out to keep life in.
  • 1963  Here [in New Brunswick] developed the river drive of the squared timber and the masts down the river, the lumber camp, the lumberjack. . . . [See Main John for full quote.]