DCHP-2

logging DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 1a n. — Hist.

  See quotes.

  See also: burning  chopping  fallow  improvement (def. 1)  log ((v.)) (def. 1)  log-rolling (def. 1a)  niggering  plan-heap  slashing  

  • The clearing of land in pioneer days involved at least three operations: the chopping down of trees and the removal of brush; the cutting of the trunks into lengths and the piling of the logs and brush; the burning of the log-heaps, q.v. The term logging was applied to either or both of the first two of these operations, but especially to the second. See burning, chopping, fallow, improvement, niggering, plan-heap, and slashing.

• 1b n. — Hist.

  a gathering of neighbors to clear land by logging.

  See also: logging bee  

• 2 † n.

  the business or occupation of felling and sawing trees and of transporting them to sawmills, lumberyards, etc.

  See also: lumbering (def. 1 and note & def. 2)