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▪ I. shinlog, n.1 Brick-making.|ˈʃɪnlɒg| (See quot. 1703.) Hence shinlog v., to close (the mouth of a kiln) with shinlog.
1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 48 They damm up the Mouth of the Kiln..with their Shinlog, as they call it (which is pieces of Bricks piled upon each other, with wet Brick Earth, instead of Mortar). This Shinlog they make so high, that there is but just room above it to thrust in a Faggot. Ibid., The Mouth being thus Shinlog'd, they proceed to put in Faggots. 1825J. Nicholson Oper. Mech. 534. ▪ II. † ˈshinlog, n.2 Obs. [app. f. shin in shinbin (cf. the form shinbeam) + log n.1] = shinbin.
1842Penny Cycl. XXIV. 141/2 Pieces called ‘shin-logs’, and admirably adapted for ship-timbers. |