Log
[lɒg] or [lɔɡ]
Definition
(noun.) measuring instrument that consists of a float that trails from a ship by a knotted line in order to measure the ship's speed through the water.
(noun.) a written record of events on a voyage (of a ship or plane).
(noun.) a written record of messages sent or received; 'they kept a log of all transmission by the radio station'; 'an email log'.
(noun.) a segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches.
(verb.) enter into a log, as on ships and planes.
(verb.) cut lumber, as in woods and forests.
Editor: Winthrop--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing 2.37 gills.
(n.) A bulky piece of wood which has not been shaped by hewing or sawing.
(n.) An apparatus for measuring the rate of a ship's motion through the water.
(n.) Hence: The record of the rate of ship's speed or of her daily progress; also, the full nautical record of a ship's cruise or voyage; a log slate; a log book.
(n.) A record and tabulated statement of the work done by an engine, as of a steamship, of the coal consumed, and of other items relating to the performance of machinery during a given time.
(n.) A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.
(v. t.) To enter in a ship's log book; as, to log the miles run.
(v. i.) To engage in the business of cutting or transporting logs for timber; to get out logs.
(v. i.) To move to and fro; to rock.
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Definition
n. a bulky piece of wood: a heavy stupid or sluggish person.—adj. consisting of logs.—ns. Log′-cab′in -house -hut a cabin or hut built of hewn or unhewn logs common in new American settlements; Log′gat a small log or piece of wood: an old game somewhat like nine-pins; Log′gerhead a blockhead: a dunce: (naut.) a round piece of timber in a whale-boat over which the line is passed: a species of sea-turtle: a round mass of iron with a long handle heated for various purposes.—adj. Log′gerheaded.—ns. Log′-head a blockhead; Log′-man (Shak.) a man who carries logs: (U.S.) one whose occupation is to cut and remove logs—also Log′ger.—v.t. Log′-roll to engage in log-rolling.—ns. Log′-roll′er; Log′-roll′ing a combination for facilitating the collection of logs after the clearing of a piece of land or for rolling logs into a stream: mutual aid given by politicians for carrying out individual schemes: a system of literary criticism conducted on the lines of mutual admiration or adulation; Log′wood the dark-red heart-wood of H鎚atoxylon campechianum a native of Mexico and Central America whence it is exported in logs.—At loggerheads at issue quarrelling about differences of opinion &c.
n. a Hebrew liquid measure believed to be very nearly an English pint.
n. a piece of wood with a line for measuring the speed of a ship: the record of a ship's progress.—v.t. to exhibit by the indication of the log: to enter in the logbook.—ns. Log′board; Log′book the official record of the proceedings on board ship: a book kept by the head-master of a board-school for recording attendances and other matters connected with the school; Log′-chip the board in the form of a quadrant attached to a logline; Log′-glass a 14- or 28-second sand-glass used with the logline to ascertain the speed of a ship; Log′line the line fastened to the log and marked for finding the speed of a vessel; Log′-reel a reel on which the logline is wound; Log′-slate a double slate marked and ruled in the inside for recording the log.—Heave the log to learn the speed of a ship by logline and glass.
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Examples
- As she sat with the paper folded between her hands, the charred log fell asunder. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Seeing a soldier in blue on this log, I rode up to him, commenced conversing with him, and asked whose corps he belonged to. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Means for quarter sawing in both directions of log travel are shown in patent to Gray, No. 550,825, December 3, 1895. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Even the log of wood which lies heavy and motionless on our woodpile is made up of countless billions of molecules each in rapid incessant motion. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The first development was along the lines of this form of saw, and to increase its efficiency the saws were arranged in gangs, so as to make a number of cuts at one pass of the log. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Once in camp I put a log on top of the fire and it was full of ants. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Payne put a wire in the binding-post of the battery, the motor started, and an assistant began sawing a heavy oak log. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But since he had come he meant to wait; and he sank into a chair and stretched his feet to the logs. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The burning logs gave warmth to the cabin and served as a primitive cooking agent; and the smoke which usually accompanies burning bodies was carried away by means of the chimney. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Some of the giant redwood logs must be split in the woods with powder before they can be handled on the saw carriage, and the average yield per acre is in the neighborhood of 150,000 feet. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The rough stock-strips for the alley bed, leveling strips, return chute, post and kick-backs are sawed out of certain of the logs. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Clym hastily put together the logs on the hearth, raked abroad the embers, which were scarcely yet extinct, and blew up a flame with the bellows. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- If straw is employed, the rough logs may remain, and the crevices between them may be left open. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Up flew the bright sparks in myriads as the logs were stirred. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The company has its own logging crews that cut the timber and pile it on flat cars, whence it is transported over a private railroad until it arrives at the company sawmills. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In order to move these heavy logs, therefore, it was necessary for the woodsmen to get rid of the bark, the undergrowth and the branches, which, in logging parlance, is known as slash. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In the early days of logging, when modern machinery was not available, the woodsmen were confronted with the problem of moving tremendously heavy trees. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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