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▪ I. logging, vbl. n.|ˈlɒgɪŋ|
[f. log v.1 + -ing1.]
1. The action of felling timber or hewing it into logs. Also concr. A quantity of timber felled.
1706New Hampsh. Prov. Papers (1869) III. 337 Those whose livelihood chiefly consists in Logging and working in the woods. 1823J. F. Cooper Pioneers xvii. (1869) 74/1 His piles, or to use the language of the country, his logging. 1881Chicago Times 16 Apr., It has been a hard winter for logging. 1895Crockett Bog-Myrtle 400 During his student days he combined the theory of theology with the practice of ‘logging’.
2. (See quot., and cf. log-rolling 2.)
1817Jefferson Let. 16 June in Writ. (1830) IV. 307 The barter of votes..which with us is called ‘logging’, the term of the farmers for their exchanges of aid in rolling together the logs of their newly cleared grounds.
3. The process of taking and recording information about something. (Cf. log v.1 5, log n.1 7 d.)
1941F. H. Lahee Field Geol. (ed. 4) xviii. 574 For..learning more about the lithology and fluid content of rocks in the walls of a bore-hole, and..for more accurately fixing the top and bottom contacts of rocks of varying character..electrical surveying, or electrical logging..has become common practice. 1958L. E. C. Hughes Electronic Engineer's Ref. Bk. 832 With the aid of the automatic logging control..the alarm circuits on each unit controller trigger off printed messages. 1965G. J. Williams Econ. Geol. N.Z. xvi. 255/1 Down-hole resistivity logging..showed that the kerogen content of the shale is thin-bedded, and that it can be measured rapidly by this means. 1967Electronics 6 Mar. 269/1 Suggested applications include scanning, multiplexing..data logging..and telemetering.
4. attrib. and Comb., as logging-camp, logging-chain, logging company, logging establishment, logging-path, logging railway, logging-road, logging-shirt, logging-sled, logging swamp, logging wheel; logging-bee U.S. (cf. bee1 4).
1836Backwoods of Canada 192 We called a *logging-bee; we had a number of settlers attend..to assist us.
1880N. H. Bishop 4 Months in Sneak-Box 248 Following along its bank for a mile, we arrived at the *logging-camp of Mr. Childeers.
1825A. Anderson Diary 10 Sept. in G. Sellar Narr. (1916) vii. 103 Walked to Toronto... Am no judge of oxen... Besides them had to pay for *logging-chain and an ox-sled. 1905Terms Forestry & Logging (U.S. Dept. Agric. Bureau Forestry) 36 Dump hook, a levered chain, grab hook attached to the evener to which a team is hitched in loading logs. A movement of the lever releases the hook from the logging chain without stopping the team. 1910J. Hart Vigilante Girl xxvi. 356 He was carrying in his hand a light logging-chain which was attached to his ankles. 1949Sat. Even. Post 15 Jan. 71/2, I rushed around to the toolbox, dragged out one of the heavy logging chains.
1903A. B. Hart Actual Govt. Amer. Colonies 326 *Logging companies buy up immense areas of land for timber. 1948Time 9 Feb. 36/3 Logging companies protested it was a poor policy to rob them of 800 loyal, trained workers when there was a shortage of labor.
1851J. S. Springer Forest Life & Forest Trees 67, I have seldom taxed my judgement as severely on any subject as in judiciously locating a *logging establishment.
1857Thoreau Maine W. (1894) 291 We..were soon confused by numerous *logging-paths.
1888J. Muir Picturesque Calif. 460 It is moved from camp to camp by the ‘*logging’ railway. 1926Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 7 July 1/7 Construction of logging railways and similar facilities will be proceeded with..for the re⁓opening of the logging camps in September. 1969Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 9 Mar. 12/1, I used shank's mare along the logging railway to what was referred to as Headquarters Camp.
1839C. T. Jackson 3rd Rep. Geol. Maine 41 We..walked along a *logging road in the forest beside the stream. 1896R. Kipling Seven Seas 112 Robin down the logging-road whistles ‘Come to me’.
1845P. Parley's Ann. VI. 30 A coarse garment of hempen cloth, called a *logging shirt.
1741New Hampsh. Prov. Papers (1872) VI. 349 Sent our Baggage on *loging sleds to Rochester from Cochecho.
1848Bartlett Dict. Amer., *Logging swamp, in Maine, the place where pine timber is cut. 1851J. S. Springer Forest Life & Forest Trees 46 We have sometimes heard the voice of prayer even in the logging swamp. 1905Terms Forestry & Logging (U.S. Dept. Agric. Bureau Forestry) 42 Logging wheels, a pair of wheels, usually about 10 feet in diameter, for transporting logs.
▪ II. logging, ppl. a.1|ˈlɒgɪŋ|
[f. log v.1 + -ing2.]
That logs or lies like a log.
1864Woolner My Beautiful Lady 6 The logging crocodiles' Outrageous bulk.
▪ III. logging, ppl. a.2|ˈlɒgɪŋ|
See also logan-stone.
[f. log v.2 + -ing2.]
That rocks. Only in logging-rock, logging-stone.
1818R. P. Knight Symbolic Lang. (1876) 148 The rude and primitive symbol of the logging rock. 1824Hitchins & Drew Cornwall I. iv. §4. 148 In the parish of Sithney..stood a celebrated logging stone. 1881Harper's Mag. Nov. 803 Logging-stones whose ponderous bulk sways at the touch of a woman's hand.
▪ IV. logging(e
obs. form of lodging vbl. n. |