Term: Crib (logging)
Definition:
1. A unit of lumber on a raft when lumber was sent down the river from the mill to market. 2. A raft or boom of logs. 3. A wall or abutment built to prevent stoppage or damage during a river log drive; a barrier for reducing the flow of water downstream but extending only part way from shore and thence upstream so as to form a place for storing logs, etc. View more information about logging elsewhere at wisconsinhistory.org
View pictures relating to logging at Wisconsin Historical Images.
[Source: Sorden, L.G. and Isabel J. Ebert. Logger's Words of Yesteryears. (Madison, 1956)]
