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▪ I. log, n.1|lɒg|
Forms: 4–6 logge, 7–8 logg, 6– log.
[Late ME. logge; of obscure origin; cf. the nearly synonymous clog n., which appears about the same time.
Not from ON. lág felled tree (f. OTeut. *læ̂g-, ablaut-variant of *leg- lie v.1), which could only have given *low in mod.Eng. The conjecture that the word is an adoption from a later stage of Scandinavian (mod.Norw. laag, Sw. dial. låga), due to the Norwegian timber-trade, is not without plausibility, but is open to strong objection on phonological grounds. It is most likely that clog and logge arose as attempts to express the notion of something massive by a word of appropriate sound. Cf. Du. log clumsy, heavy, dull; see also lug n. and v. In sense 6 the word has passed from Eng. into many other langs.: F. loch, Ger., Da. log, Sw. logg.]
I. gen.
1. a. A bulky mass of wood; now usually an unhewn portion of a felled tree, or a length cut off for use as firewood. in the log: in an unhewn condition.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. xlv. 630 Þe frute þereof falleþ..but he be..itrailled wt logges [L. lignis] & yardes as it were a vine. 1481–90Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb. Club) 355 My Lord paied..[for] iij. lodes of belet, and iij. lodes of logges..xviij. s. 1490Caxton Eneydos xlvi. 139 The hardy knyghtes..casted vpon theym grete logges wyth sharpe yron atte the ende. 1525Churchw. Acc. Heybridge, Essex (Nicholls 1797) 173 Paide to Adrewe of Braxted, for a logge 6d. 1540–54Croke Ps. (Percy Soc.) 44 If one of his hate, Byfore the logge or stone wold ley, His purpose shall cumme all to late. 1545Rates Custom-ho. b, Dogion logges the hundreth peces vis. viiid. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. 23 b, I was somtime a fig tree log, a block that serued for nought. c1600Day Begg. Bednall Gr. ii. ii. (1881) 38 Wol't say I lye? thou hadst as good eat a load of logs. 1610Shakes. Temp. iii. i. 17, I would the lightning had Burnt vp those Logs that you are enioynd to pile. a1700Dryden Ovid's Met. viii. Meleager 253 There lay a Log unlighted on the Hearth. 1800Colquhoun Comm. Thames i. 27, 250 of the Timber Ships are laden with Logs. 1850Tennyson In Mem. cvii, Bring in great logs and let them lie, To make a solid core of heat. 1857Thoreau Maine W. (1894) 196 The largest pine belonging to his firm..was worth ninety dollars in the log. 1900Blackw. Mag. July 53/2 The smouldering ends of logs..gave forth a tingling smoke which filled the hovel.
b. fig. and in similative phrases. Said, e.g., of a vessel floating helplessly (cf. mod.G. log sein to float helplessly), of an inert or helpless person. † a log in one's way: a stumbling-block, obstacle. to have a log to roll: see log-rolling. as easy (or simple) as falling (or rolling) off a log.
1579–80North Plutarch, Annibal (1595) 1148 Anniball..knew that this great ouerthrow..would also be a great logge in his way. c1600Timon i. ii. (Shaks. Soc.) 7 Thou logg, thou stock, thou Arcadian beast. 1602Marston Antonio's Rev. v. iv. Wks. 1856 I. 137 The saplesse log, that prest thy bed With an unpleasing waight. 1622R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea 213 In this conflict, having lost all her mastes, and being no other then a logge in the sea. 1812Byron Ch. Har. ii. xx, The flapping sail haul'd down to halt for logs like these! 1839Picayune (New Orleans) 29 Mar. 2/2 He gradually went away from the Lubber, and won the heat, ‘just as easy as falling off a log’. 1865Daily Tel. 13 Nov. 5/2 The New York Daily News may have its log to roll and its axe to grind as well as other folks. c1880‘Mark Twain’ Speeches (1923) 97 A man who could have elected himself Major-General Adam or anything else as easy as rolling off a log. 1886Stevenson Treas. Isl. ii. vii. 59, I must have slept like a log. 1898Daily News 19 May 7/6 Mr. Gladstone..pathetically remarked that he was now like a log. 1900Longm. Mag. June 134 [He] struck Bill who fell like a log on the dusty road. 1904‘A. Dale’ Wanted: a Cook 207 It was so easy that the inelegant simile of ‘rolling off a log’ impressed me as being absolutely justifiable. 1913F. H. Burnett T. Tembarom xvii. 223, I dropped into it by accident,..and that made it as easy as falling off a log. 1949N. Marsh Swing, Brother, Swing iv. 67 Don't keep asking if I can understand things that are as simple as falling off a log. 1973Times 10 Feb. 11/3 Acting? said Ernest Borgnine. Why, there was nothing to it, really. ‘For me,’ he said, ‘it's as easy as falling off a log.’
c. Mining. (See quot.)
1860Eng. & For. Mining Gloss. (S. Staffordsh. Terms), Log, or Baby, a balance weight, placed near the end of the pit-rope, to prevent its running back over the pulley. 1881in Raymond Mining Gloss.
†d. See quot. (perh. confused with lug). Obs.
1669J. Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 348 Log, a term used in some places for a cleft of Wood, and in some places for a long piece or Pole, by some for a small Wand or Switch.
†e. Phr. to hang upon the log: ? to be slow in finding sale. Obs.
1655W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. i. 106 Something sure is in it, that Impostors finde such quick return for their ware, while Truth hangs upon the log.
† f. In Old St. Paul's, a block or bench on which serving-men sat. Obs.
1609Dekker Guls Horn-bk. iv. 18. 1639 Mayne City Match iii. iii. 31.
g. Surfing. (See quots.)
1967J. Severson Great Surfing Gloss., Log, a very heavy surfboard. 1970Studies in English (Univ. of Cape Town) I. 28 His board may be described as a barge or a log, both of which describe a big cumbersome surfboard, one that is difficult to manoeuvre.
2. a. A heavy piece of wood, fastened to a man's or beast's leg, to impede his movements. † Also fig.
1589Pasquil's Return B, Her Maiestie layeth such a logge vppon their consciences, as they ought not beare. a1592H. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 483 Wedlock, with wife and children clogs, The single life, lust's heavier logs. 1837H. Martineau Soc. Amer. III. 193 They [insane negroes] were kept in out-houses, chained to logs. 1843Dickens Mart. Chuz. xxviii, Here I am tied like a log to you. 1853Marsden Early Purit. 324 W. L...was brought up before the same court with his chains and log at his heels.
b. A military punishment now abolished. (See quots.) Obs. exc. Hist.
1830in Rep. Commiss. Milit. Punishments (1836) 312 The log..is a punishment..which cannot be sanctioned and is henceforth strictly forbidden. 1846H. Marshall Milit. Misc. 205 The Log.—This punishment consisted of a log, or a large round shot, or shell, which was connected to a delinquent's leg by means of a chain; and he was obliged to drag or carry this about with him.
3. King Log: the log which Jupiter in the fable made king over the frogs; often used as the type of inertness on the part of rulers, as contrasted with the excess of activity typified by ‘King Stork’.
1675Crowne Country Wit v. Dram. Wks. 1874 III. 114 Go, sir! manage him, whilst I handle Log, the second King of frogs, that follows him. 1761J. Wesley Jrnl. 18 Jan., The custom began in the reign of king Log. 1766Chesterfield Let. to Son 11 July, I have always owned a great regard for King Log. 1901M. J. F. McCarthy Five Y. Irel. xxiii. 320 They prefer King Log to King Stork.
4. pl. Austral. slang. A gaol or lock-up. (Formerly built of logs. Cf. log-house.)
[1802G. Barrington Hist. N.S. Wales 184 The governor resolved on building a large log prison both at Sydney and Paramatta.] 1888‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms xxv. (1889) 193 Let's put him in the logs. 1890― Miner's Right xxx. 273 No bail allowed either, or of course you needn't have been ten minutes in the logs.
5. A piece of quarried slate before it is split into layers.
1725D. Eaton Let. 13 Feb. (1971) 9 The reason why the slaters could not go on was bycause they could not run their slate out of the log for want of frost. 1939Evening News 2 Feb. 8/6 When the slate is taken to the surface it is called ‘log’, and is then left in the ‘slate-patch’ to wait for the frost to break it into layers. 1946N. Wymer Eng. Country Crafts x. 108 Then the props are systematically removed, and the slate is allowed to crash down, breaking up into large slabs which can be levered up and roughly broken by hammer into ‘logs’. 1975Times 9 Aug. 12/7 Collyweston slate is unusual in that it is produced by the action of frost on the stone logs.
II. Naut. and derived senses.
6. An apparatus for ascertaining the rate of a ship's motion, consisting of a thin quadrant of wood, loaded so as to float upright in the water, and fastened to a line wound on a reel. Hence in phrases to heave, throw the log, (to sail or calculate one's way) by the log. Said also of other appliances having the same object.
1574Bourne Regiment for Sea xiv. (1577) 42 b, They hale in the logge or piece of wood again, and looke how many fadome the shippe hath gone in that time. 1644H. Manwayring Sea-mans Dict. s.v. Logg-line, One stands by with a Minut⁓glasse, while another out of the gallery lets fall the logg. 1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. iv. ii. 146 We throw the Log every two Hours. 1686J. Dunton Lett. fr. New-Eng. (1867) 28 Being about 50 Leagues off the Lizard..we began to sail by the Log. 1719D'Urfey Pills III. 305 Heave the Logg from the Poop. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1780) A a 4, It is usual to heave the log once every hour in ships of war. 1805E. Berry in Nicolas Disp. Nelson VII. 118 note, During the chace we ran per log seventy miles. 1833Marryat P. Simple (1834) I. xii. 156 It's now within five minutes of two bells, so we'll heave the log and mark the board. 1863Baring-Gould Iceland 178 Calculating their way by the log. 1876Catal. Sci. App. S. Kens. 54 Patent Log, for measuring speed at sea; used in H.M. Navy.
7. a. Short for log-book. A journal into which the contents of the log-board or log-slate are daily transcribed, together with any other circumstance deserving notice.
1825H. B. Gascoigne Nav. Fame 79 Then down he goes his daily Log to write. 1850Scoresby Cheever's Whaleman's Adv. vi. (1859) 86 To fix the localities of whales' resorts by the comparison of the logs of a vast number of whalers. 1883Stevenson Treas. Isl. iv. xviii, The captain sat down to his log, and here is the beginning of the entry.
transf.1875R. F. Burton Gorilla L. (1876) II. 176 Had the writers lived, they might have worked up their unfinished logs into interesting and instructive matter.
b. (See quot.)
1875Knight Dict. Mech., Log (Steam-engine), a tabulated summary of the performance of the engines and boilers, and of the consumption of coals, tallow, oil, and other engineers' stores on board a steam-vessel.
c. = log-book 3.
1882in Cassell.
d. Any record in which facts about the progress or performance of something are entered in the order in which they become known; e.g. (a) a record of what is found, or how some property varies, at successive depths in drilling a well; a graph or chart displaying this information; (b) a record kept by a lorry driver in which details of journeys are noted; (c) a record kept of what is broadcast by a radio or television station from moment to moment.
1913Jrnl. Geol. XXI. 671 This company has prepared logs of various..salt wells. 1920L. S. Panyity Prospecting for Oil & Gas xiii. 162 It is the duty of the driller..to keep a record or log of the well. This consists in noting the various formations drilled through, the casing points, and the showings of water, oil or gas. 1924G. W. Grupp Econ. Motor Transportation ix. 187 Nothing is more interesting than..making..a motor-truck performance log. 1925K. G. Fenelon Econ. Road Transport 241 A daily log prepared by the driver of each vehicle, showing the nature of the work performed, the tonnage carried, the time taken, etc. 1937Printers' Ink Monthly May 39/2 Log, an account of every minute of broadcasting, all errors being considered. An accurate journal required by law. 1956Nature 21 Jan. 120/2 The study of these continuous velocity logs in conjunction with seismic reflexion records shot from the surface is leading to a better understanding of the origin of reflexions. 1957M. R. J. Wyllie Fund. Electr. Log Interpretation (ed. 2) ii. 105 Even in dirty formations the neutron log can sometimes give a fairly good estimate of porosity. Ibid. 110 Logs which make use of the scattering of gamma-rays to determine the density of formations penetrated by boreholes..are rapidly being improved in efficiency. 1960J. M. Weller Stratigr. Princ. & Pract. xvii. 614 Electric logs consist of curves that are continuous records of self-potential and resistivity measured in wells and plotted against depth... In a general way..they indicate differences in lithologic characters of strata and many lithologic changes are shown with great precision. 1963Amer. Speech XXXVIII. 44 Log, log book, the driver's daily report required by the I.C.C. 1965W. S. Barry Airline Managem. x. 149 Station logs report troubles that have occurred during embarkation or disembarkation. 1968Radio Communication Handbk. (ed. 4) xx. 4/2 Log Keeping. The Post Office requires all amateurs to keep a log book containing full details of all transmissions... Entries must be made at the time of operation, and no gaps should be left in the log. 1974Sci. Amer. May 133/3 These men filled out sleep logs (for pay) and answered many questions.
8. Tailoring. [transf. from 7] A document fixing the time to be credited to journeymen (who are paid nominally by the hour) for making each description of garment; the scale of computation embodied in this document.
1861Dunn's Tailor's Labour Agency Retrospect 13 What is technically called a ‘log’ is agreed upon, that is a certain number of hours for every description of garment, and the wages fixed at so much per hour. 186810th Rep. Trades Union Comm. 17 We [operative tailors] wanted a uniform time-log. The masters prepared a time-log, and said to us, ‘Here is the log, you must accept it as it is’.
III. attrib. and Comb.
9. a. simple attributive, as (sense 1) log-end, log-fire, log-mark; (with the sense ‘made of or constructed with logs’) log barn, log barrack, log-booth, log-bridge, log building, log causeway, log-chamber, log chapel, log church, log city, log college, log-fence, † log-guard, log heap, log-hut, log kitchen, log meeting-house, log pen, log pound, log prison, log-road, log room, log-shanty, log stable, log tavern, log tenement, log-tent, log-trap, log wall, log-way; (‘for use in dealing with logs’) log-boom (boom n.2 4), log-car, log-chain, log-railway, log-sled, log-sleigh, log-stamp; (sense 8) log prices, log-shop; (in sense ‘for use in dealing with logs’) log skid.
1795Pittsburgh Gaz. 6 June 1/2 To be Sold..two cabins, a *log barn. 1845S. Judd Margaret i. iii. 12 On the east side of the road was a log barn. 1948Time 11 Oct. 21/1 A country which still remembered Indians, wild turkeys, log barns, [etc.].
a1861T. Winthrop Life in Open Air (1863) 32 All residents of Damville dwelt in a great *log-barrack.
1878Lumberman's Gaz. 6 Apr., An addition to the wharf and a *log boom are being made.
1862H. Marryat Year in Sweden II. 371 Two rows of weatherbeaten *log-booths.
1664First Cent. Hist. Springfield, Mass. (1898) I. 316 Foure acres of low lands Northwestrly from the *logg bridge as it is called.
1806Z. M. Pike Acct. Expeditions Sources Mississippi i. App. 36 [The fur-trading establishment] at Lower Red Cedar Lake..consists of *log buildings.
1881Chicago Times 11 June, The track upon which runs the *log-car.
1828Gore Gaz. (Ancaster, Ontario) 18 Oct. 134/2 The stumps are all taken out—and the *log causeways, where these are necessary—are covered with a thick coat of earth. 1831T. Buttrick in R. G. Thwaites Early Western Trav. (1904) VIII. 54 In some places, in low grounds, there would be log-causeways for a considerable distance.
1703Providence Rec. (1894) VI. 224, i *Logg chaine.
1788M. Cutler in Life (1888) I. 401 We were turned into a hot, *log chamber, full of people.
1810F. Asbury Jrnl. (1821) III. 298 Saturday, at William Adams's *log-chapel I preached to a small assembly.
1847F. Parkman in Knickerbocker XXIX. 313 We found the *log-church..belonging to the Methodist Shawanoe Mission. 1895M. A. Jackson Mem. Stonewall Jackson (ed. 2) 382 The little log church is..full.
1817S. R. Brown Western Gaz. 106 Vangeville,—A *log city..has fifteen or twenty old log houses.
1795P. Freneau Poems 374 On the Demolition of a *Log-College. 1850W. H. Foote Sk. Virginia 349 Could we..look into the school of the worthy pastor, then gaining its eminence as ‘a log college’.
1659Gauden Tears Ch. Eng. i. xiv. 122 The most heavy *log-end of Christs Cross is laid upon many of them.
1836J. Abbot Way to Do Good i. 24 They were stepping over a low place in the *log fence.
1878Browning Poets Croisic 1 Praise the good *log-fire! Winter howls without.
1808Ashe Travels I. 302 The town..has in its centre, the remains of an old *Log Guard.
1818L. D. Clarke in Firelands Pioneer (1920) XXI. 2324, I spread ashes where *log-heaps had been burned. 1819E. Dana Geogr. Sk. Western Country 36 The Creoles never having before smelted, except by throwing the ore into log heaps. 1856A. Cary Married 295 Having made a log-heap fire, Martin put the table-cloth about his shoulders. 1933E. C. Guillet Early Life Upper Canada 277 In new settlements during July the whole countryside was illuminated by the burning of log heaps.
1797J. A. Graham Pres. State Vermont 161 As in a former Letter I mentioned the *Log Hut, I will here..give a short account of its construction. 1890‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Miner's Right vi. 61 Log-huts, with the walls built American fashion of horizontal tree trunks.
1874E. Eggleston Circuit Rider v. 56 The wide old *log-kitchen, with its loom in one corner. 1948Florida Hist. Q. July 40 Close to many of the larger houses were log kitchens where cooking and eating took place.
1859Michigan Rep. VI. 270 The Mill Company had given a list of *log-marks under section eight of the act.
1823Baptist Mag. IV. 74 We have a good *log meeting-house on Salt Creek.
1789M. L. Weems Let. in M. L. Weems: Works & Ways (1929) III. 148, I lodged in a *log-pen. 1832Louisville Directory 102 The ditch was surmounted by a breast work of log pens filled with the earth obtained from the ditch. 1853‘P. Paxton’ Stray Yankee in Texas 118 A fish spear is to him [sc. the old Texan] a groin,..a house no house, but a log-pen.
1737in Coll. New Hampsh. Hist. Soc. (1863) VII. 358 A *log pound 30 ft. square, six feet high, with a good gate, and a lock and key.
1888Lancet 26 May 1049/1 Tailors..obtaining ‘*log’ prices—that is, the highest rate of wages.
1802G. Barrington Hist. N.S. Wales 184 (Morris), The governor resolved on building a large *log prison. 1845C. M. Kirkland Western Clearings 212, I went to prison; nothing but a log prison.
1857Thoreau Maine W. (1894) 125 A truck drawn by an ox and a horse over a rude *log-railway through the woods.
1819F. Wright Views (1821) 234 A *log road, or causeway, as it is denominated, is very grievous to the limbs.
1743D. Brainerd Let. 30 Apr. in J. Edwards Acct. Life D. Brainerd (1749) 201 It is a *Log-Room, without any Floor, that I lodge in. 1903S. E. White Conjuror's House x. 119 Virginia entered a small log room..and sat down in a musty red armchair.
1847H. Howe Hist. Coll. Ohio 492 They fell to work..erecting bark huts and *log shanties. 1874Green Short Hist. i. §3. 25 He made his way at last to a group of log-shanties in the midst of untilled solitudes.
1899Contemp. Rev. Mar. 382 There are quite a number of Jewish coat makers working for ‘private’ or ‘*log’ shops.
1923*Log-skid [see break-down 3]. 1957N.Z. Timber Jrnl. Oct. 73/2 Log skids, a platform on which logs are stacked in the forest to assist loading on to trucks.
1878Lumberman's Gaz. 2 Feb. 89 He has constructed a road of ice..on which the *log-sleds slip along readily.
1893Scribn. Mag. June 706/2 The *log-sleighs have ten, twelve, and even fourteen-foot bunks, or cross beams, on which the load rests.
1834Southern Lit. Messenger I. 120 In the *log stable..I saw a number of them.
1878Lumberman's Gaz. 5 Jan., Wyburn's improved *log stamp is convenient for marking logs with the exact number of feet.
1810F. Cuming Sk. Tour Western Country 44 We stopped to feed our horses at a small *log tavern. 1874E. Eggleston Circuit Rider xvi. 147 Marton was conducted three miles down the river to a log tavern.
1829J. F. Cooper Borderers III. i. 27 The *log tenement, the stacks,..were sending forth clouds of murky smoke. 1841― Deerslayer (ed. 2) I. ii. 47 The furniture was of the strange mixture that it is not uncommon to find in the remotely situated log-tenements of the interior.
1748H. Ellis Hudson's Bay 154 Some of the People were employed in cutting Fire-Wood, others in building *Log-Tents.
1784J. Belknap Tour White Mts. (1876) 13 We saw the..*log-traps, which the hunters set for sables.
1840Knickerbocker XVI. 247, I looked around on the bare *log-walls and ceiling.
1779in F. Chase Hist. Dartmouth Coll. (1891) I. 562 To maintain said mills by repairing the present buildings..and also the *log way and necessary mill houses. 1822Logway [see ground-hornet (ground n. 18 b)]. 1874B. F. Taylor World on Wheels ii. vii. 245 Days when, over the old road, ran the yellow mud⁓stained coach,..pitching along its log-ways. 1973A. Price in Winter's Crimes 5 202 The driver..had driven the cart off the logway.
b. objective, as (sense 1) log-carrying, log-driving, log-hauling, log-heaving, log-raising; log-cutter, log-hauler, log-lumberer, log-maker; (sense 7) log-reading.
c. instrumental, as log-built, log-lighted ppl. adjs.d. similative, as log-like adj., log-wise adv.
1835C. F. Hoffman Winter in West I. 79 We stopped to breakfast at a low *log built shantee. 1937Discovery Nov. 344/2 This sole surviving example of the log-built churches, once common in the forest region of Essex.
1898Daily News 16 June 5/2 It is strange to hear that the aged poor are still at oakum-picking or *log-carrying.
1893Scribn. Mag. June 710/2 At night he must get from the *log-cutters their count for the day.
1879Lumberman's Gaz. 19 Dec., The dam will be used for flowage and *log-driving purposes.
1919W. T. Grenfell Labrador Doctor (1920) xiii. 233 The *log-hauler would not deliver the goods to the rotary saw. 1962Amer. Speech XXXVII. 134 Log hauler, an engineer on a logging train.
1893Scribn. Mag. June 706/2 There is great strife between the teamsters in making *log-hauling records.
1823W. Faux Memorable Days Amer. 180 *Log-heaving, that is, rolling trees together for burning, is done by the neighbours in a body, invited for the purpose.
a1847Eliza Cook Gray-haired Dec. iii, The *log-lighted hall.
1602Marston Antonio's Rev. i. v. Wks. 1856 I. 86 A chaine that's fixt Onely to postes, and senselesse *log-like dolts.
1909Westm. Gaz. 11 Aug. 5/1 The pulp-maker..is not content, like the *log-lumberer, to remove the grown trees, but takes the young plants as well.
1880Lumberman's Gaz. 7 Jan. 28 Next come the ‘*log-makers’, working in gangs of three or four, each with its ‘chief’.
1864‘E. Kirke’ Down in Tennessee iii. 43 In April, 1862, he and his band came upon a party of neighbors collected at a *log raising in Fentress County. 1897E. W. Brodhead Bound in Shallows 169 Law, the log-raisin's and corn-huskin's they used to have!
1901Blackw. Mag. Oct. 476/1 The modern navigator has buried the best part of his astronomy under a heap of dead reckonings and *log-readings.
1879Browning Halbert & Hob 37 So *logwise..Was he pushed, a very log.
10. Special combs.: log-basket, a basket, or similar receptacle, for holding logs by a fire; log-beam (see quot.); log-board, a hinged pair of boards on which the particulars of a ship's log are noted for transcription into the log-book; log-butter, ‘a drag-saw for butting, i.e. cutting off square the ends of logs’ (Knight); log-buttings, the ends thus cut off; log-camp = logging-camp (see logging vbl. n.); log-canoe, one hollowed out of a single tree; log-chip = log-ship; log-cock, ‘one of the many local names in North America of Picus pileatus (Woodpecker)’ (Newton); log-crop, the quantity of logs hewn in one season; log-deck (see quot.); log-drive (see drive n. 3); log-fish a fish of the U.S. coast, Lirus perciformis; log frame, ‘a name for a saw-mill’ (Knight); log-glass (see quot. 1858); log-head = blockhead 2; log-headed a., having a head like a log; log-house, a house built of logs; in early use (U.S.) applied to a prison; also attrib. in log-house quilting (see quot.); log-juice slang [cf. logwood 2, note], cheap port wine; log-knot, a knot made in a log-line to indicate a specified length; log-line, a line of 100 fathoms or more to which the log is attached; also the sort of line used for this purpose; log-man, † (a) one employed to carry logs; (b) one employed in cutting and carrying logs to a mill (local U.S.); log-paddock, a small field fenced in with logs; log-perch, a freshwater fish, Percina caprodes, of N. America; log-pocket, a basin or pool in which logs collect; log-reel (see quot.); log-rule (see quot. 1905); log-runner Austral., a ground-dwelling bird of the genus Orthonyx found in northern New South Wales, Queensland, and New Guinea; log-running, the operation of setting logs afloat down the side-streams, or conveying logs to the saw-mill; the operation of sending logs down a river; log-scale (see quot. 1905); log sheet, a log-book in which the driver of a commercial motor vehicle enters particulars of his working and rest hours; log-ship, also log-chip (see quot.); log-slate, a double slate used instead of the log-board; log-work, (a) the arrangement of logs in the walls of a house or other building; (b) the keeping of the log or log-book (sense 7).
1902Westm. Gaz. 17 Dec. 8/2 A really nice *log-basket in wrought iron. 1972Country Life 14 Dec. 1697/2 A split-willow log basket—22 in. long, 18 in. wide and 12 in. high, it costs {pstlg}4.00.
1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., *Log-Beam, the traveling frame in which a log lies and travels in a saw-mill.
1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. iv. ii. 146 Next we will work the Courses of the *Log-board. 1833Marryat P. Simple (1834) I. xii. 156 O'Brien reported the rate of sailing to the master, marked it down on the log-board, and then returned. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Log-board.
1879Lumberman's Gaz. 15 Oct., A machine that would utilize..*Log Buttings.
1857Thoreau Maine W. (1894) 180 My companion inclined to go to the *log-camp on the carry.
1752P. Stevens in N. D. Mereness Trav. Amer. Colonies (1916) 315, I..set out..in the morning accompanied by an officer and ten soldiers, who brought us in two *log canoes. 1788R. Putnam in M. Cutler's Life (1888) I. 379 Our whole fleet consisted of..three log canoes of different sizes. 1841G. Powers Hist. Sk. Coos 130 He took a log-canoe, and ascended the river to the place where Orford bridge now is.
1846*Log-chip [see log-ship].
1806M. Lewis in Lewis & Clark Orig. Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1905) IV. 132 The large woodpecker or *log cock. 1853‘P. Paxton’ Stray Yankee in Texas 58 (Th.), The log-cock, with his gaudy head⁓dress. 1866Intell. Observ. No. 53. 333 The Log-cock (Hylatomus Pileatus). 1884J. Burroughs in Century Mag. Dec. 222/2 The log-cock, or pileated woodpecker..I have never heard drum.
1879Lumberman's Gaz. 7 May, The delivery of the *log crop of Michigan.
1905Terms Forestry & Logging (U.S. Dept. Agric. Bureau Forestry) 42 Log deck, the platform upon a loading jack.
1904N.Y. Even. Post 3 May 2 The annual *log-drives have begun in the upper Hudson watershed.
1884Goode, etc. Nat. Hist. Useful Aquatic Anim. i. 334 The Black Rudder-fish—Lirus perciformis. This fish is also called by the fishermen ‘*Log-fish’ and ‘Barrel-fish.’
a1814Sailor's Ret. in New Brit. Theatre ii. 319 As sure as a can of grog, or allowance, is only left but the time of a *log-glass, so sartain [sic] is to be purloin'd. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Log-glass, a half-minute sandglass used on board ship for timing the speed of sailing, by the quantity of line run out in a given time.
1831Carlyle Sart. Res. (1858) 100 Not being born purely a *Loghead (Dummkopf), thou hadst no other outlook.
1571R. Edwards Damon & Pithias E iv, The *log-headed knaue. 1926Spectator 24 July 149/1 Anyone..would have been thought log-headed or obstinate.
1662in H. R. Shurtleff Log Cabin Myth (1939) 80 As fare Westwardly as the *logg house. 1669Maryland Archives (1884) II. 224 That there be a Logg house Prison Twenty ffoot Square Built..in the Baltemore County. 1680N. Carolina Col. Rec. (1886) I. 300 Ye Deponent saw ye sd Mr. Miller enclosed in a Logghouse about 10 or 11 foot square purposely built for him. 1741P. Tailfer, etc. Narr. Georgia (1835) 24 He threatned every Person..who..claim'd their just Rights and Privileges with the Stocks, Whipping-Post, and Logg-House. 1784J. F. D. Smyth Tour U.S.A. II. 9 Constructing temporary habitations (log houses) to reside in. 1836Backwoods of Canada 46 The log-house and shanty..[have] been supplanted by pretty frame-houses. 1879A. W. Tourgée Fool's Errand vii. 34 This log house had..given way to a more pretentious structure of brick. 1882Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlewk. 379 This..pattern in Patchwork is one that in Canada is known as Loghouse Quilting. It is..made of several coloured ribbons..arranged so as to give the appearance of different kinds of wood formed into a succession of squares. 1965Mrs L. B. Johnson White House Diary 7 Sept. (1970) 318, I arrived at Honeymoon Cabin, a real log house. 1974‘S. Harvester’ Forgotten Road v. 54 Clusters of log houses..formed the village.
1853‘C. Bede’ Verdant Green ii. iii, Mr. B. and party are discovered drinking *log-juice, and smoking cabbage-leaves.
1860in Merc. Marine Mag. VII. 114 *Log knots in these..ropes will teach the men the..length.
1613M. Ridley Magn. Bodies 147 Observing the way with the *logge-line. 1644H. Manwayring Sea-mans Dict., A Logg-line. Some call this a Minut-line. 1794Rigging & Seamanship I. 94 The holes, for marling the clues of sails..have grommets of log-line. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Log-line.
1610Shakes. Temp. iii. i. 67 For your sake Am I this patient *Logge-man. 1845C. M. Kirkland Western Clearings 175 He turned his hand to the plough, and was the ‘patient log-man’ of a poverty-stricken household. 1870Daily News 16 Apr., The lumber business is carried on..by the logmen.
1900H. Lawson On Track 29 He was putting up a two-rail fence along the old *log-paddock.
1882Jordan & Gilbert Fishes N. Amer. (Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. III.) 499 Percina, *Log Perches. Ibid., P. caprodes..Log Perch; Rock-fish; Hog-molly; Hog-fish.
1877Lumberman's Gaz. 17 Nov., A dam has been built across the river, forming a *log pocket.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Log-reel, the reel on which the log-line of a ship is wound.
1895Montgomery Ward Catal. 369/1 *Log rules, either Scribner or Doyle scale. 1905Terms Forestry & Logging (U.S. Dept. Agric. Bureau Forestry) 15 Log rule, 1. A tabular statement of the amount of lumber which can be sawed from logs of given lengths and diameters. 2. A graduated stick for measuring the densities of logs. The number of board feet in logs of given diameters and lengths is shown upon the stick.
1898E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 272/1 *Log-runner, an Australian bird, called also a Spine⁓tail. 1901A. J. Campbell Nests & Eggs Austral. Birds I. 252 A nest I found in the Big Scrub, Richmond River, which I believe belonged to the Orthonyx, or Log Runner, was in a damp situation. 1931,1934[see chowchilla]. 1965Austral. Encycl. V. 359/1 Log-runners construct large domed nests of leaves and moss, with a side-entrance placed usually on the ground or on the top of a low stump.
1878Lumberman's Gaz. 6 Apr., The Green Bay Advocate of March 28 says that *log-running is commencing all around. 1901S. E. White Westerners xxi. 199 In the log running Michail Lafond was the man always called upon to skim over the bobbing logs.
1877Mich. Supreme Court Rep. XXXVI. 168 The scale of the manufactured lumber exceeded the *log scale. 1905Terms Forestry & Logging (U.S. Dept. Agric. Bureau Forestry) 42 Log scale, the contents of a log, or of a number of logs considered collectively.
1958Listener 14 Aug. 226/2 The lights come on in the cabs [of the lorries], while the drivers make out their *log sheets. 1959E. K. Wenlock Kitchin's Road Transport Law (ed. 12) 78/2 A current record (popularly known as a log sheet) containing the prescribed particulars must be compiled by the driver of every vehicle, [etc.]. 1964Times 11 Feb. 11/6 The practice of keeping duplicate sets of log sheets,..is so common that it is hardly remarked upon.
1841Dana Seaman's Man. 114 Log, a line with a piece of board called the *log-ship, attached to it. 1846Young Naut. Dict. s.v. Log-line, A piece of board called the Log-ship or Log-chip. c1860H. Stuart Seaman's Catech. 43 The ‘log-ship’, is a flat piece of wood in the form of a quadrant, having a sufficient quantity of lead inserted in the circular edge to keep it steady and perpendicular in the water.
1834Knickerbocker III. 83 Adding on the *log-slate another ‘ditto’ to the long column of them. 1841Dana Seaman's Man. 153 It is the custom for each officer at the end of his watch to enter upon the log-slate..the courses, distances, wind and weather during his watch, and anything of note that may have occurred. Once in twenty-four hours the mate copies from this slate into the log-book.
1721J. Baxter in New Eng. Hist. & Gen. Reg. (1867) XXI. 57 All Hands went briskly to work, to finish y⊇ *log-work in y⊇ Lower Block-house. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 3 Tedious accounts of their log-work, how many leagues they sailed every day; where they had the winds [etc.]. 1856Olmsted Slave States 111 The chimney is..commonly of lath or split sticks, laid up like log-work and plastered with mud.
Add:[III.] [10.] log flume, (a) U.S. = flume n. 3 a; (b) = flume n. 3 d.
1963Brit. Columbia Digest Nov.–Dec. 34/3 Logs came to the mill pond by a 19-mile *log flume, the second largest on the continent at that time. 1972New Society 16 Nov. 395/2 The 40-acre fantasy of big dipper rides, log flumes and big wheels. 1983Proc. Ann. Meeting TAPPI 281/1 Log flumes are used as a method for transporting pulpwood or logs from rivers to inland flumes, or from unloading areas to the barking drum feed conveyor within a pulp mill. 1989Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 4 Feb. p. v/2 If you're going to use the log flume [at Blackpool], be warned: you really will get wet.
Add:[II.] [7.] [d.] (d) Austral. A list or summary of claims for a wage increase, or other employee benefits. Freq. more fully, log of claims.
1911Commonwealth Arbitration Rep. V. 181 The claims of the employees have been framed into a log of wages and conditions. 1925Round Table June 587 Delay on the part of various Government departments of Western Australia in dealing with a log lodged by such [harbour] employees. 1948G. Farwell Down Argent St. 102 When the unions submitted their log of claims for the 1925 Agreement, they asked for increased wages and yet shorter hours. 1969Age (Melbourne) 24 May 3/2 Negotiations over the log of claims. 1984Austral. Financial Rev. 9 Nov. 7/3 Workers at the Rosella factory..are on strike over a log of claims, including a 5 per cent wage claim.
▪ II. ‖ log, n.2|lɒg, ləʊg|
Also 6 logg.
[Heb. lōg.]
A Hebrew measure for liquids; the twelfth part of a hin; = about three quarters of a pint.
1530Tindale Lev. xiv. 24 And let the preast take..the logge [Vulg. sextarium, Wycl. sextarie; 1611 log] of oyle. 1755in Johnson; and in mod. Dicts.
▪ III. log, n.3 and a.|lɒg|
Also † log. (with point).
1. Abbrev. of logarithm, logarithmic a.
See the last paragraph of the note to logarithm; (log is no longer confined to a position before a number).
1631[see logarithm]. 1805J. W. Norie Epitome Pract. Navigation Expl. Tables p. xv, Thus the log. of 295 is 2·469822. 1858I. Todhunter Algebra for Schools 308 Given log 2 find log ·0025. 1890G. F. Matthews Man. Logarithms 18 How many positive integers are there whose logs. to the base 3 have 6 for a characteristic? 1960F. Land Lang. Math. ix. 119 Either of the forms 1296 = 64 or 4 = log6 1296 describes the relationship between the number 1296, the base 6 and the index 4. 1971Nature 17 Dec. 419/2 At every stage in dark adaptation, the log threshold for test flash detection..is raised in proportion to the log brightness of the after image.
1785C. Hutton Math. Tables 150 To find the log. sine of 1° [etc.]. Ibid., To find the log. tang. of 2° [etc.]. 1805J. W. Norie Epitome Pract. Navigation Expl. Tables p. xv, The log. sine of 3 points is 9·744739. 1890G. F. Matthews Man. Logarithms 49 The Logarithm of the sine of A is called the logarithmic sine of A and written log sin A. 1967Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. V. 134 In a recent account of headland-bay beaches Yasso (1965) found that their plan geometry, which results from wave movements, closely fits a log-spiral. 1974Daily Tel. 14 May 3 (Advt.), At last there's a pocket calculator which gives you log and trig functions instantly..at a price that makes sense.
2. Special Comb.: log log, (a) n., the logarithm of the logarithm (of a number); also attrib., indicating or involving such quantities; (b) adj. (usu. hyphenated), applied to a graph or to graph paper having a logarithmic scale along both axes; log-normal a. (Statistics), such that the logarithm of the variate is distributed according to a normal distribution; hence log-normally adv.; log phase Biol. = logarithmic phase s.v. logarithmic a.; log table, a table of logarithms; usu. pl.
1910Encycl. Brit. IV. 975/1 Dr John Perry added log log scales to the ordinary slide rule in order to facilitate the calculation of ax..according to the formula log log ax = log log a + log x. 1933S. Dawson Introd. Computation of Statistics i. 28 Log.-log. paper, in which both sets of values are represented by lines proportional to their logarithms. 1957Kendall & Buckland Dict. Statistical Terms 169 Loglog transformation, the transformation of a probability P..according to the formula Y = loge (-loge P). 1962Lancet 5 May 949/2 An exponential function yields a straight line when plotted on log-linear graph paper, while a power law function gives a straight line when plotted on log-log paper. 1966D. G. Brandon Mod. Techniques Metallogr. 209 The slope of the log-log plot of the current-voltage characteristic near the threshold field..is of the order of 30.
1945J. H. Gaddum in Nature 20 Oct. 465/1 It is proposed to call the distribution of x ‘lognormal’ when the distribution of log x is normal. Ibid., Examples of lognormal distributions have been found in estimates of the numbers of plankton caught in different hauls of the net, and in the amounts of electricity used in medium-class homes in the United States. 1951Biometrika XXXVIII. 434 It is assumed that the population distribution of abundance is log-normal. 1971J. B. Carroll et al. Word Frequency Bk. p. xxi, This model..is called the lognormal model, because it postulates that the total vocabulary underlying a corpus is distributed according to the familiar ‘normal distribution’ when the logarithms of the frequencies are used.
1945J. H. Gaddum in Nature 20 Oct. 465/1 The size of the particles of silver in a photographic emulsion were lognormally distributed. 1951Biometrika XXXVIII. 427 (heading) The expected frequencies in a sample of an animal population in which the abundances of species are log-normally distributed. 1967Proc. Ussher Soc. I. 277 Testing on a logarithmic scale, however, reveals the existence of two lognormally distributed populations with a discontinuity at about 0·15% Mg.
1938H. L. Hind Brewing I. xv. 367 This method..was termed the Log phase method because it is used to measure acidity during the logarithmic phase of the growth of the bacterium in wort. 1959F. S. Stewart Bigger's Handbk. Bacteriol. (ed. 7) i. 10 The log phase is of relatively short duration, lasting at most for some hours. 1974Nature 4 Jan. 67/1 Stationary and log-phase cultures of E. coli B, E. coli K 12 Sr..and B. subtilis were exposed to 160° C.
c1935J. A. Hammerton New Popular Educator 467/1 For practical purposes the indices of 10 have been tabulated in what are called Tables of Logarithms... The student now needs this tool, ‘log tables’. 1962R. B. Fuller Epic Poem on Industrialization xx. 143 Napier developed between 1614–1620 His logarithms, his complete log tables. 1969D. C. Hague Managerial Economics vi. 132 Given time, patience and log tables, we could draw up a table like Table 7 for ourselves.
▪ IV. log, v.1|lɒg|
[f. log n.1]
1. trans.
†a. To bring (a tree) to the condition of a log; to deprive of branches (obs.).
b. To cut (timber) into logs.
c. To remove the logs or trees from (an area). Also const. off, over, up. Chiefly N. Amer.
1699W. Dampier Voy. II. ii. 80 A Tree..so thick that after it is log'd it remains still too great a Burthen for one Man. 1717in Mass. House of Representatives Jrnl. (1919) I. 272 Bridger [is trying]..to compel the Inhabitants..to Pay Him Forty Shillings..for each Team they send to Log and get Timber. 1818L. D. Clark in Firelands Pioneer (1920) XXI. 2322 He and Lines went logging of the land to sow with wheat. 1829J. MacTaggart Three Yrs. Canada II. 206 When the large wood is hewn down and logged, that is, cut into lengths and laid round these stacks in a rude pile, the fire can more readily be applied to them. 1829in E. C. Guillet Valley of Trent (1957) 355 After this we logged up and cleared three acres. 1833Chambers's Edin. Jrnl. II. 167/2 He..acquaints his neighbours around him, according to the extent of the land he has to log. 1836Backwoods of Canada 101 After the trees have been chopped, cut into lengths, drawn together, or logged, as we call it. 1839A. Langton Jrnl. in Gentlewoman Upper Canada (1950) 114 Six or seven acres were logged up during the day. 1848Thoreau Maine W. (1894) 26 Only a little spruce and hemlock beside had been logged here. 1902S. E. White Blazed Trail ii. 5 We own, however, five million on the Cass Branch which we would like to log on contract. 1904― Blazed Trail Stories iii. 46 Suppose you log a knoll which..must grow at least a half million. 1919B. W. Sinclair Burned Bridges 302 As soon as the land is logged off it is open for soldier entry. 1921H. Kephart Camping & Woodcraft (new ed.) I. 113 With this one tool a good axeman can..quickly fell and log-up a tree large enough to keep a hot fire before his lean-to throughout the night. 1948Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 18 July 6/5 By 1889 he had built a farm home and ‘tourist home’ from timber he had cut and logged himself. 1959A. McLintock Descr. Atlas N.Z. 45 Once provisional State forest was logged over for timber it was then released for agricultural development. 1963E. C. Guillet Pioneer Farmer I. 318 Some men were known to log several acres a year entirely alone—without even oxen.
absol.1830Galt Lawrie T. iii. ii. (1849) 87 The settlers..were busy logging and burning. 1848Thoreau Maine W. (1894) 97 We turned our backs on Chesuncook, which McCauslin had formerly logged on. 1878Michigan Rep. XXXVII. 408 He was logging on the..Manistee River.
d. to log up (see quots. 1889 and 1905). So logging-up. N.Z. colloq.
1889Colonia I. i. 26 ‘Logging-up’ is generally done in the autumn, when there are strong gales of wind blowing. The bush which has been felled in the winter, is set fire to, and after a day or two when the ground is sufficiently cool for walking on, the still-burning logs are rolled together and piled up with rubbish, so that they may be burnt clean away. 1891R. Wallace Rural Econ. Austral. & N.Z. xv. 232 When the burning is badly done the seed cannot be properly sown; the rubbish lies thick over the ground and the whole has to be gone over again and ‘logged-up’, else the land is thrown temporarily out of use..while the owner waits for the remaining rubbish to decay. 1905J. M. Thomson Bush Boys N.Z. ii. 32 These [big unburned trees] are ‘logged-up’ afterwards, that is rolled together and piled round the stumps, so as to dry thoroughly preparatory to ‘firing’ them again. 1908B. E. Baughan Shingle-Short 84 [Trees] logged up for burning.
2. To lay out (a road) with a layer of logs.
1893Scribner's Mag. June 706/1 Road-makers log out the road to its proper width.
3.
†a. trans. Of water: To lie in (a ship) so as to reduce it to the condition of a log; in quot. absol.
1751Smollett Per. Pic. (1779) IV. lxxxvi. 10 Several feet of under-water logging in her hold.
b. intr. To lie like a log.
a1813A. Wilson Foresters Poet. Wks. (1846) 269 By slow degrees the sinking breezes die, And on the smooth still flood we logging lie. 1864[see logging ppl. a.1].
†4. Mil. To inflict on (a soldier) the punishment of the log (see log n.1 2 b). Obs.
1816C. James Milit. Dict. (ed. 4) s.v., To Log..is a punishment which is inflicted in some dragoon or hussar regiments for indisciplined and disorderly conduct. 1839C. F. Briggs Adventures Harry Franco I. xix. 194 The captain ordered Mr. Ruffin to log me, and swore he would send me back to the States in irons.
5. a. orig. Naut. To enter (esp. the distance run by a ship) in a log or log-book; hence gen., to record. Also with down, up.
1823J. F. Cooper Pioneers xxxiv. (1869) 149/2 I've logged many a hard thing against your name. 1852Blackw. Mag. LXXII. 94 He has just logged down, in a plain manner, what he noticed on the road. 1880N. H. Bishop 4 Months Sneak-Box 106, I..went into camp behind an island, logging with pleasure my day's run at sixty-seven miles. 1884Pall Mall G. 6 Oct. 8 The weather was logged at midnight, ‘Light, clear, passing showers’. 1924J. Bruce Power Station Efficiency Control v. 105 If an analysis is to be made of the boiler-room operating results, the indications from the various instruments must be carefully logged at least every half-hour. 1966Rubin & Haller Communication Switching Syst. viii. 294 Every message which is accepted into the system is logged on a storage device. 1969Bennison & Wright Geol. Hist. Brit. Isles i. 18 One further parameter of particular importance in logging bore-hole strata is the measurement of thermal conductivity. 1974Physics Bull. Jan. 30/2 Up to now data from brake tests have been logged using ultraviolet recorders or human observers.
absol.1863W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting 376, I have got on very slowly since logging up last.
b. Of a vessel: To traverse (a certain distance) by log-measurements. Also, to travel at (a certain speed) as measured by a log; to ‘do’. Hence of an aircraft or pilot: to attain a cumulative total of (so many hours, miles, etc.) in the air. Also transf., of a machine and the time spent in operation.
1883E. F. Knight Cruise Falcon (1887) 32 This day we logged 160 miles. 1892Daily Tel. 29 Dec. 5/1 In one day she hardly logged as much as a hundred knotts. 1928Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 116/2 The liner was logging a steady seventeen knots. 1955Times 22 Aug. 8/5 During the past five days..Secretary of State for Air, who has been learning to fly, has logged 13 hours' solo flying, it was stated yesterday by an Air Ministry spokesman. 1956IRE Trans. Electronic Computers V. 138/2 To date 670 hours of operation have been logged on this unit since debugging. 1966Listener 4 Aug. 179/2 The Graf Zeppelin..was the first aircraft to log over a million miles. 1972Lebende Sprachen XVII. 73/2 Over the past two years, our HS 125s..have proved themselves to be increasingly valuable as management tools while logging more than 1,200 trouble-free hours.
c. To enter the name of (a man as an offender) in a log-book, with a penalty attached. Hence, to fine.
1889Times 10 Sept. 10/5 The understanding..was that the penalties for logging should not be enforced. 1892Pall Mall G. 30 Aug. 2/1 Taken before the captain on the bridge and ‘logged’ to the extent of from five to twenty shillings. 1892Labour Commission Gloss., Logging offences, the entering..in the ‘official log’ of British vessels of offences committed by members of the crew. 1899F. T. Bullen Log Sea-waif 280 I'll log ye to-morrow.
d. to log in or log on (intr.), to open one's on-line access to a computer, esp. a database or other time-shared system, from a terminal; also to log (a person) in or out; to log off or log out (intr.), to terminate one's on-line access to a computer; also to log (a person) off, to log off (a system). So ˈlog-in, -on, -out ns., the action or an act of logging in, etc.
1963Compatible Time-Sharing System (M.I.T. Computation Center) iii. 25 If the user exceeds his track quota while writing a file, there will be an automatic temporary extension of his quota{ddd}The extension will be maintained when the user issues logout. When he next logs in, he should relieve the excess..by adequate deletions. 1965IEEE Spectrum II. 59/1 An automatic logout of the author's problem. Ibid. 61/2 The total number of user-hours between logins and logouts turns out to be approximately 17 times the number of computer hours used. 1968M. V. Wilkes Time-Sharing Computer Systems ii. 7 The user begins a session by logging in, that is he types the command LOGIN, followed by his problem number and name. Ibid., The user is logged in and the date and time are printed. Ibid. vii. 94 If necessary, the handshake program will log out a low priority user in favour of a high priority user who wishes to come in. 1977Sci. Amer. July 65/3 (Advt.), With 300 people authorized to use the terminals,..we now average over 400 ‘log-ons’ a day. As many as 70 people may be online simultaneously. 1978Bell System Techn. Jrnl. LVII. 1924 A user may log out simply by typing the end-of-file sequence to the shell. Ibid. 1925 A user has successfully logged in by supplying a name and password. 1983Pop. Computing Oct. 71 Big savings come only by minimizing the time you spend actually connected to the service or database. Anything you can do off line should be done before you log on. If you get stuck on something, don't be reluctant to log off,..and log back on. 1984Today in Gainesville (Florida) Mar. 13/2 Almost everywhere, it seems, American hackers (fanatics) are ‘logging on’ to these computerized repositories. 1985Byte Jan. 306/2 A person..upon exiting from the program is logged off the MP/M system. 1985Computerworld 29 Sept. 51/1 Allowing people to log on and leave the terminal area without logging off the system.
†6. intr. ? To be ‘like a log’, be sluggish. Obs.
1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. ii. 133 Which kinde of Phrase, your old women in Spaine vse to their children, when they goe sneakingly and fearfully about any businesse. Anda, anda, que pareçe que vas a hurtar; Get thee gone, get thee gone, thou goest logging and dreamingly about it, as if thou wentest a filching.
7. Austral. Mining. to log up: To make a log support for the windlass.
1890‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Miner's Right v. 54 We..had logged up and made a start with another shaft.
▪ V. log, v.2 dial.|lɒg|
[? Onomatopœic. Cf. rog, rock v.]
trans. To rock, move to and fro. b. intr. To oscillate.
1808Polwhele Cornish-Eng. Voc. 45 note, This enormous mass, from its peculiarity of position, may be easily logged to and fro. 1880W. Cornwall Gloss., Log, to oscillate.
▪ VI. log
dial. form of lug (worm).
▪ VII. log
short for logarithm. |