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log slide Lumbering, East

• an artificial sluiceway down which logs or cribs may be directed to avoid rapids, falls, or other obstructions in a river.

  See also: slide (def. 1a)  

  • 1958  New activity started in 1852, when a log slide was built at Shawinigan Falls. . . .
  • 1961  The cribs were suitable in size for sending down log slides; the drams were sent down rapids.