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stream-driving Lumbering, Esp. N. B. 
n. the process or practice of floating logs downstream at high water.
See also: driving (def. 1)
- 1845 Larger pieces of wood or timber are floated singly down the stream nearest to the place whence they are cut. This operation is called stream-driving, and commences as soon as the rapid melting of the snow and ice has so swollen the small streams as to give them power to force and carry the huge pieces of timber. . . .
- 1896 The task the lumbermen are now engaged upon is termed "stream driving"; and laborious, perilous work it is. . . .
- 1845 Larger pieces of wood or timber are floated singly down the stream nearest to the place whence they are cut. This operation is called stream-driving, and commences as soon as the rapid melting of the snow and ice has so swollen the small streams as to give them power to force and carry the huge pieces of timber. . . .