FOREST TERMINOLOGY 21 



Drive, v. To float logs or timbers from the forest to the mill or shipping point. 

 (Gen.) 



Syn.: float. 

 Driving road. See Float road. 



Drop siding. A pattern of lumber used to cover the exterior sides of buildings. 

 (Gen.) 



Syn.: eove siding, German siding, novelty siding, patent siding, sidiug 

 (Gen.), rustic siding (P. C. F.). 

 Dross, n. Foreign matter which is strained out of crude turpentine and resin 

 at the still. (S. F.) 

 Syn.: trash. 

 See Chip. 

 Drum logs, to. To haul logs by drum and cable out of a hollow or cove. (App.) 

 Dry face, x. A face that has ceased to yield crude turpentine. (S. F.) 



Syn.: dead face. 

 Dry-ki, n. Trees killed b}- flooding. (N. F.) 

 Dry kiln. A structure in which lumber is dried by artificial heat. (Gen.) 



Syn.: kiln, lumber kiln. 

 Dry mill. A sawmill that has no log pond. (Gen.) 

 Dry pick, to. As applied to a jam, to remove logs singly while the water is cut 



ott^^. (N. F.) 

 Dry roll, to. In sacking the rear, to roll stranded logs into the bed of the stream 



from which the water has been cut off preparatory to flooding. (N. F.) 

 Dry rot. Decay in timber without apparent moisture. (Gen.) 

 Dry slide. See Slide. 

 Dry sloop, to. To sloop logs on bare ground when the slope is so steep that it 



would be dangerous to sloop on snow. (N. F.) 

 Dublin standard. Sec London standard. 

 Dudler, n. See Dudley. 



Dudley, n. An engine for hauling logs, which propels itself along steel rails and 

 drags its load by revolving a large spool around which are several turns of a 

 cable fixed at each end of the track. (P. C. F.) 

 Syn.: dudler. 

 Duffle, w. The personal belongings of a woodsman or lumberjack which he takes 

 into the woods. (Gen.) 

 Syn.: dunnage (N. W.). 

 Duffle bag. A canvas sack used to carry the clothing and personal belongings of 

 woods workers. 



Syn.: dunnage bag. 

 See Turkey. 

 Dump, n. 1. A term applied to portable mill lumber yards. (New Jersey.) 



2. Srr Pit. 

 Dump hook. A levered chain grab-hook attached to the eyener to which a team 

 is liitchcd in loading logs. A movement of the lever releases the hook from 

 the logging chain without stopping the team. (N. F.) 

 Dump logs, to. To roll logs over a bluff" or from a logging car or sled into the 



water. (Gen.) 

 Dunnage, u. (I^og.) 1. Sawmill refuse, used to ballast logging railroad spur.-^ 

 in a cypress swamp. (S. F.) 

 Syn.; dust. 

 2. See Duffle. 



(Tjum.) Lumber of a grade below tiiat recognizctl in luml)er market (piota- 

 tions. Cull lumber, usable for certain purposes. (P. (". F.) 

 Dunnage bag. Sr^ Duffle bag. 



