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log-jam
[f. log n.1 + jam n.1]
1. An accumulation of logs in a river; a place where logs become jammed. Cf. jam n.1 1.
1885E. L. Dorsey Midshipman Bob (1886) i. 73 His father got killed in a log-jam. 1897Kipling Five Nations (1903) 39 Do you know that racing stream With the raw, right-angled log-jam at the end? 1900Jrnl. School Geogr. (U.S.) Apr. 153 The breaking of a log jam or an ice dam on one of our rivers. 1940J. Buchan Memory Hold-the-Door v. 101 He could do what the lumberman does in a log-jam, and pick out the key log which, once moved, sets the rest going. 1957G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. i. 115 The successive formation of log jams.
2. fig. An obstruction or blockage; a delay; a deadlock. Cf. jam n.1 1 b.
1890W. James Princ. Psychol. I. xi. 451 But at intervals an obstruction, a set-back, a log-jam occurs. 1907Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republ. 14 Feb. 8 The congressional log-jam which held back all legislature for nearly a week was finally broken Thursday afternoon. 1935Economist 4 May 1009/1 A number of corporate refunding issues have been successfully offered.., leading the Secretary of the Treasury to affirm that the ‘log-jam in the capital market’ has at last been broken. 1951M. Lowry Let. 5 June (1967) 245 There is a kind of log jam in my work. 1962Listener 5 Apr. 597/2 Nothing is likely to break the Arab-Israeli log-jam until the Arabs achieve a greater measure of unity. 1965Ibid. 20 May 737/2 Something may have happened to show us what Mr. Ian Smith's electoral victory really means and how the political log⁓jam has begun to move. 1973I. M. Sinclair Vienna Convention on Law of Treaties v. 139 Informal meetings among leading delegations failed to move the log-jam. |