APPENDIX -TWO
THE LINGO OF THE WOODS
Backbreaker: A big log, usually 14 inches or more in diameter.
Ball-hooter: A logger who rolls logs down hillsides.
Bang juice: Dynamite.
Barber Chair: A stump with a high projection like the back of a chair.
Beaver: To hack a tree down in amateurish fashion.
Bettle: A large wooden mallet used in driving posts and wedges.
Belly: The curve in an axe handle.
Blowin: Going to town to celebrate.
Board tree: A straight grained tree suitable for riving into clapboards.
Bonhomme: A piling jack.
Boom: A mass of floating logs held together for towing.
Boom-rat: One who rides logs in the water and rafts them into booms.
Bow Saw, Swedish Saw, Swede Fiddle, Pulpwood saw: A Bucksaw with a bow-shaped steel frame.
Boy's Axe: A three-quarter axe, with 2-1/2 pound head and 28 inch handle.
Bridge: The narrow section of tree remaining before it falls.
Brier, Misery Whip: A crosscut saw.
Broadaxe: A large axe the blade of which is bevelled on one side only, used in flattening logs and making ties.
Broadaxe Bridage: A crew of tiemen.
Bucker: One who bucks or saws logs into lengths.
Buck: To saw, or to carry anything such as water or wood.
Buckeroo: One who rides or birls logs in the water and rafts them into booms. Also Log-jockey, bucko, river-dirver.
Bucksaw: A hand saw for bucking wood.
Bug: A lantern made by inserting a candle in a hole in the side of a tin can, or a lantern of any type.
Bull: The camp-boss or foreman; Bull of the Woods.
Bull Bucker: The head man of a crew of fallers and buckers.
Bull Cook: A cook's helper or choreman.
Bull Pen: A bunkhouse.
Bull-pen boy: A bunkhouse caretaker; also a Crumb.
Bullwacker: An oxen driver.
Bunch: To pile logs in small piles.
Bunkie: A bed partner
Bunyan Boy: A logger, also Brush-rat, rosin-belly,sawdust-savage.
