DCHP-2
swamp ((v.)) DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1 † v.
cut a road or trail through bush country, especially for hauling lumber.
- 1872 . . . the "swampers" ... "swamp"--cut roads--to the felled trees to enable the "teamster" and his assistants to haul them on a "Bob sled". . . .
- 1888 (1890) The brushwood was so thick that we had to "swamp it" out with an axe. . . .
- 1954 [He] had swamped a hauling-road into the middle of the stretch that lay south of the shore road.
- 1958 [He] is still there . . . sixty wagon-miles north of Anahim Lake [B.C.] over a trail he "swamped out."
2 v. — Nfld
See quote.
- 1937 To swamp a road or path is to build one with a bedding of boughs to be used in hauling slide loads of wood in winter.
3 † v.
haul or skid (def. 1), especially along a road that has been swamped (def. 1).
See also: swamp ((v.)) (def. 1) swamping road skid ((v.)) (def. 1)
- 1959 It had been a few years since I jockeyed a caterpillar tractor but in a half hour I was turned loose and began to swamp the cut logs through the muskegs and tangled brush to the mill.
- 1872 . . . the "swampers" ... "swamp"--cut roads--to the felled trees to enable the "teamster" and his assistants to haul them on a "Bob sled". . . .