DCHP-2
stream-driver Lumbering, Esp. N. B. DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a man who takes part in the process of floating or driving logs.
See also: driver (def. 1)
- 1904 The man was Steve Williams, best axe-man and stream-driver in the camp; the boy, young Steve, his eldest son, who was serving as "cookee," or assistant to the camp cook.
- 1949 In those days a good stream-driver was a king of the woods.
- 1904 The man was Steve Williams, best axe-man and stream-driver in the camp; the boy, young Steve, his eldest son, who was serving as "cookee," or assistant to the camp cook.