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lumber depot Hist.

• a farm, operated by a lumber company or privately owned, supplying fresh meat and vegetables, oats, etc., to lumber camps and often serving as a repository for supplies.

  See also: depot farm  

  • 1883  Some weeks after . . . Gandron was seen at a lumbering depot some distance off. . . .
  • 1961  . . . it was almost impossible to smuggle in whisky blanc or rotgut because of the distances of the lumber depots from the towns and villages along the shore.