hot-yard v esp ME Cf hot deck n, hot-log v, hot yard n, yard v a
In logging: to remove logs from a yard n as fast as they are brought in; to handle (logs) in this way; hence vbl n hot-yarding.
1905 Technical World Mag. 3.606 ME, [Caption:] Hot-yarding Spruce Logs in the Early Winter. 1908 Burleigh All Among Loggers 108 ME, They were working only half a mile from camp, and hot yarding to the landing down on the lake-shore. Ibid 109, “Now what do you mean by ‘hot yarding’?” ”That is where one team drags logs to a yard and another hauls them directly to the landing.” 1933 Brandstrom Analysis Logging Costs 117 Pacific NW, Hot-yarding—The logs are relayed by a swing machine as fast as they arrive at the yarder landing. 1978 Northeast Folkl. 18.56 ME (as of c1946), The horse was, what they call, “hot-yarding.” . . I filled that skidway full just right off the ground without piling them up, see, and when they got full the team [and sled] come right along and loaded them and cleaned it right out.