log

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

1) A bulky piece or stick of timber unhewed. Pine logs are floated down rivers in America, and stopped at saw-mills. A piece of timber when hewed and squared, is not called a log, unless perhaps in constructing log huts.--Webster.


TO LOG

2) To cut down and get out pine logs for sawing into boards, etc.

Once more at work, he employed his leisure time in the heavy and dangerous business of logging.--Mrs. Clavers's Western Clearings.

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