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timber crib Lumbering 
in the Ottawa Valley especially, one of the small units or assemblages of logs that, in groups of 25 or 30, formed a raft of timber, used in driving from the camps to the mills or shipping points.
See also: crib (def. 1a)
- 1896 They had to walk from the foot up to the head of the rapids in running their timber cribs. . . .
- 1947 One of the heroic figures in the annals of those days, was the cook who continued working in his cookhouse on a timber crib, as the whole affair went sliding down one of the Ottawa chutes.
- 1896 They had to walk from the foot up to the head of the rapids in running their timber cribs. . . .