DCHP-1 Online
rearing Lumbering 
n. the activity of following after a log drive to gather stray logs and get them through to the mill.
See also: rear
- 1957 We arrived at Camp 3-G, which is staffed by about 10 men during the drive months . . . and about 25 men during the Fall rearing operations.
- 1963 . . . the last men with their cook will form the nucleus of the "rearing" crew--that is, the crew which will bring up the rear of the drive, taking care to roll into the water any logs left stranded on the banks. . . .
- 1957 We arrived at Camp 3-G, which is staffed by about 10 men during the drive months . . . and about 25 men during the Fall rearing operations.