DCHP-2

logging bee Hist. DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 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.