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tie-camp Lumbering 
n. a camp for the cutting and shaping of ties.
See also: tie
- 1881 About fifty choppers arrived by Wednesday's train; en route for the tie camps.
- 1959 Now even the native son may be scotch with his money . . . be gyped by the confidence-man (or work gippo in a tie-camp). . . .
- 1881 About fifty choppers arrived by Wednesday's train; en route for the tie camps.