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driving 
1 n. Lumbering the process or practice of floating logs downstream at high water.
See also: drive ((n.)) (def. 1b) river-driving stream-driving
- 1849 (1926) The men follow them down clearing everything before them, which is called driving. Each stick they release of course is soon brought up by some other lower down, and as you advance the jams, as they are called, of course get worse and worse.
- 1883 Some of the most narrow escapes from mutilation and drowning are of everyday occurrence during driving season.
- 1958 Pulpwood cutting and hauling for this year's delivery to the papermill at Grand Falls has been brought to a close and driving is now in full swing. . . .
2 n. a method of hunting deer by which the animal is driven, usually by dogs, until it seeks refuge in a stream or lake, where, at the point of exhaustion, it is easily killed.
See also: drive ((v.)) (def. 2) drive hunting
- 1832 (1953) The fourth method is that of Driving the Deer.
- 1866 Moose hunting lasts throughout the autumn and winter, and there are several different methods of pursuing the sport, as "calling," "driving," "creeping," and "tracking," or hunting on snow-shoes, sometimes called "crusting."
- 1921 At those driving grounds . . . the Indians could count on securing two or three bears, three or four moose, and twelve or fifteen caribou.
- 1849 (1926) The men follow them down clearing everything before them, which is called driving. Each stick they release of course is soon brought up by some other lower down, and as you advance the jams, as they are called, of course get worse and worse.