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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In lumbering, an endless spiked chain which moves logs from one point to another, usually from the mill-pond into the sawmill; a bull-chain.
  • noun A kind of small chain each link of which is formed of a single piece of wire bent into two loops resembling the figure of eight.

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