DCHP-1 Online
timber-yard Lumbering, Obs. 
n. one of a number of coves on the St. Lawrence River, near Quebec, where square timbers, staves, spars, etc. for export were stored in booms for trans-shipping after being rafted down from the lumber camps.
See also: timber cove
- 1829 When at Quebec, I went and saw the Timber-yard on the Isle of Orleans. . . .
- 1829 When at Quebec, I went and saw the Timber-yard on the Isle of Orleans. . . .