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logging bee Hist. 
v. a gathering of neighbors to clear land by logging.
See also: log ((v.)) (def 1.) log-bee log-rolling (def. 1b)
- 1832 The timber of 4 or 5 acres will (through the kind medium of the logging Bee) be drawn off the ground in a single day.
- 1897 Some of these [sports in 1820] were . . . house and barn raisings, logging bees and sugar making, and lastly, camp- meetings.
- 1961 . . . he and his neighbors would organize a logging bee, heaping up the logs in big piles and then setting fire to them.
- 1832 The timber of 4 or 5 acres will (through the kind medium of the logging Bee) be drawn off the ground in a single day.