DCHP-2

hang up DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 1a — Lumbering

  (usually as pp.) of the moment of logs, slow down or stop en route from forest to deck, water, or mill.

  See also: hang-up  hung-up  stick ((3)) (def. 1)  

  • 1872  By this means they would have their employers on the hip, as on the water falling, the lumber would be "hung up" and could not possibly be got down until the following spring.
  • 1896  Local tradition states that many years ago a drive was "hung up" below its mouth, and there at a dance, during which the big Irishman, in his enthusiasm, shouted, "We'll make Dungarvon shake". . . .
  • 1945  . . . a mild winter, with bad "hauling," might mean that the timber was "hung up in the woods," as the phrase went. . . .

• 1b — Lumbering

  of a tree or log, become caught on a snag while being felled or yarded.

  See also: hang-up  

  • 1909  (1926)  When the logs were running in any numbers, the bend had to be watched with vigilance lest a jam should form, and the waters be dammed back, and the lumber get "hung up" all over the swamps of the upper reaches.
  • 1942  But one forked stump . . . / Was sure to hang up e'er the turn went by. . . .
  • 1966  [Caption] How'd ya like to Shinny Up an' Trim a Couple of Limbs--seems to Have Hung up!

• 1c — Lumbering

  of a person, have one's load snagged so as to halt operations.

  • 1953  Well, it happened once I hung up on a chunk / When the ground was rough and the crew was punk / And the signalman was asleep on a log.

• 2

  string fish up for drying.

  See also: hang (up)