Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An encampment of loggers or persons engaged in logging during winter.

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Examples

  • A former logging-camp worker in his early 20s with an Australian beer logo, xxxx, tattooed across his forehead, he wears wraparound sunglasses, a rainbow knit cap and blue jeans.

    Rebels Of The Pacific 2008

  • It was then that Jimmy had learned from Rives about Red McIvor and the logging-camp where the party was to gather; that the station at which they would leave the train was called Indian Creek, and that it was the next station beyond

    Every Man for Himself Hopkins Moorhouse

  • The sonorous ring of axes on wood, the gnawing of saws, the crunching of runners, the crackling crash of distant trees falling to the woodsmen's onslaughts -- Bijou Falls logging-camp was a vital centre of joyous activity.

    O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 Various

  • Underneath this tree was the great box -- an old grain-box from a logging-camp -- in which we stored our "salts" as it was made.

    The Youth's Companion Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879 Various

  • This wasn't a logging-camp, but she supposed there was very little difference.

    I've Married Marjorie Margaret Widdemer 1931

  • It had the saving grace of cleanliness -- according to logging-camp standards.

    Big Timber A Story of the Northwest Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

  • Two or three buildings, typical logging-camp shacks of split cedar, rose back from the beach.

    Big Timber A Story of the Northwest Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

  • Jacques, whom he had known in the logging-camp as Blood River Jack, treated him with open friendliness, and as he became able to move about the camp, taught him much of the lore of the forest, of the building of nets and traps, the smoke-tanning of buckskin, and the taking and drying of salmon.

    The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest 1921

  • In 1861, when my father had become superintendent of a Nevada County gold mine, he left me to run the post-office, cut the timothy hay, and manage a logging-camp.

    A Backward Glance at Eighty Murdock, Charles A 1921

  • It had been Donald McKaye's intention to go up to the logging-camp on the first log-train leaving for the woods at seven o'clock on Monday morning, but the news of Dirty Dan's plight caused him to change his plans.

    Kindred of the Dust 1918

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