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rigging-slinger

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In lumbering: A member of a yarding-crew whose chief duty is to place chokers or grabs on logs.
  • noun One who attaches the rigging to trees in steam-skidding.

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Examples

  • By four o'clock Benton and his rigging-slinger had just finished bunting their second batch of logs down the chute.

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

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