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ˈmoorlog Also -logg. [app. f. moor n.1 + log n.] (See quots.)
1651R. Child in Hartlib's Legacy (1655) 141 This is in briefe my Philosophy concerning Moorlog. 1721Perry Daggenh. Breach 72 note, Moorlogg, is a vein of divers sorts of rotten Wood..which lyes about 3 Foot and a half..underneath the Surface of the Marsh Ground. 1840Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. III. 106/1 Moorlogg is described as a vein of matted brushwood, with nuts and pieces of rotten wood interspersed. 1933Antiquity VII. 38 In the summer of 1932 the skipper of the steam drifter Colinda procured another bone harpoon of Maglemose type in a sample of ‘moorlog’ (peat) brought up by the trawl. 1939G. Clark Archæol. & Society ii. 20 Over many parts of the North Sea bed..fishermen have found the remains of a great freshwater fen in the form of lumps of ‘moor log’. |