deck v Also with ~ up [ deck n 1b] chiefly Nth Cf cold-deck v 2, decker v
In logging: to stack (logs), to build a deck n 1b; hence ppl adj decked, vbl n decking.
1881 Jackson Daily Citizen (MI) 10 Nov 1/1, Soper was assisting in decking logs when a log moving under him he lost his balance and another log rolled over him. 1896 Columbia Chron. (Dayton WA) 8 Feb 1/7, Ed McNeal came near getting badly hurt Friday while decking logs on the skidway. 1905 U.S. Forest Serv. Bulletin 61.35, Deck up, to. To pile logs upon a skidway. (Gen[eral].) 1916 St. Albans Daily Messenger (VT) 26 Feb 2/3, Clarence Combs sustained frightful injuries . . while decking logse [sic] in the yard of the Nelson & Hall Co. 1929 S. Reporter 118.441/2 MS, As decker, it was his duty to pull the decking line out from the skidder and hook it to the log, for the purpose of piling or decking it into its proper place in or on the deck. 1948 Times–Picayune (New Orleans LA) 24 Oct mag sec 7/1 LA, Logs are “decked” in neat piles, first out along one side of the track, then back down the other side. 1958 Porterville Eve. Recorder (CA) 4 Mar 1/5, The mill is sawing on about 3½ million board feet of timber which was logged and decked last fall. 1966–70 DARE Tape MI20, In the winter they’d cut the logs and deck them near the stream or haul them to the mill and deck them on the bank of the pond; MI56, I also decked out here at Moran at Quayville’s mill. [FW:] What does that mean, “decking”? [Inf:] Piling the logs up on a pile; WI59, They would get their logs into the landings where they were decked up in piles. 1969 Daily Olympian (Olympia WA) 18 Feb 10/3, [Advt:] Notice of Sale of Valuable Material on State Land. . . Capital Forest Decked Logs located approximately 11 miles by road west of Littlerock. 1975 Gould ME Lingo 71, Deck—Besides the nautical meaning, this word applies to piling pulpwood. After being yarded from the woods, it is decked along the road for later hauling to the mill. 1976 Eugene Register–Guard (OR) [8 Feb sec C 15]/3, On an active summer day, the crew can deck 120 logs. 1984 MJLF 10.149 neWI, Deck. Logs piled on skids. . . Piling them thusly is decking them. 2005 Coeur d’Alene Press (ID) 3 Aug sec B 5/4, [Advt:] Stimson Lumber Co. Log Yard Equip. Operator for it’s Priest River location. Must be exp. in spreading, sorting & decking logs.