yard donkey

1. 1.

   a winch (or system of winches) powered by an engine and used to haul logs from a stump to a landing or to a skid road

   Synonymsyarder

   Broaderwinch

Questions about yard donkey

What does yard donkey mean?

yard donkey means "a winch (or system of winches) powered by an engine and used to haul logs from a stump to a landing or to a skid road".

What is another word for yard donkey?

Close synonyms include yarder. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is yard donkey a common word?

yard donkey is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.