单词 | log |
释义 | logn.1 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. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > wood as fuel > [noun] > log log1398 kinlinc1440 hud1483 chocka1582 logwood1666 backlog1684 back-brand1844 mock1844 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > undressed trunk or log stockc1000 log1398 round log1768 saw-log1799 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xvii. xlv. 630 Þe frute þereof falleþ..but he be..itrailled wt logges [L. lignis] & yardes as it were a vine. 1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxburghe Club) 355 My Lord paied..[for] iij. lodes of belet, and iij. lodes of logges..xviij. s. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xlvi. 139 The hardy knyghtes..casted vpon theym grete logges wyth sharpe yron atte the ende. 1525 in J. Nichols Illustr. Antient Times Eng. (1797) 173 Paide to Adrewe of Braxted, for a logge 6d. 1545 Rates Custome House sig. b Dogion logges the hundreth peces vi.s. viii.d. a1554 J. Croke tr. Thirteen Psalms (1844) xci. 44 If one of his hate, Byfore the logge or stone wold ley, His purpose shall cūme all to late. 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. f. 23v I was somtime a fig tree log, a block that serued for nought. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iii. i. 17 I would the lightning had Burnt vp those Logs that you are enioynd to pile. View more context for this quotation a1640 J. Day & H. Chettle Blind-beggar (1659) sig. D3 Wol't say I lye? thou hadst as good eat a load of logs. 1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Meleager & Atalanta in Fables 114 There lay a Log unlighted on the Hearth. 1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames i. 27 250 of the Timber Ships are laden with Logs. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam cv. 165 Bring in great logs and let them lie, To make a solid core of heat. View more context for this quotation a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) ii. 148 The largest pine belonging to his firm..was worth ninety dollars in the log. 1900 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 53/2 The smouldering ends of logs..gave forth a tingling smoke which filled the hovel. b. figurative and in similative phrases. Said, e.g., of a vessel floating helplessly (cf. modern German 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 n. as easy (or simple) as falling (or rolling) off a log. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [noun] > one who phlegmatic?1541 drumble1568 log1579 phlegmatist1599 lethargy1634 mooner1842 slowie1901 Oblomov1903 walking dead1980 the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > [noun] > one who or that which hinders > a hindrance, impediment, or obstacle hinderc1200 withsetting1340 obstaclec1385 traversea1393 mara1400 bayc1440 stoppagec1450 barrace1480 blocka1500 objecta1500 clog1526 stumbling-stone1526 bar1530 (to cast) a trump in (one's) way1548 stumbling-stock1548 hindrance1576 a log in one's way1579 crossbar1582 log1589 rub1589 threshold1600 scotch1601 dam1602 remora1604 obex1611 obstructiona1616 stumbling-blocka1616 fence1639 affront1642 retardance1645 stick1645 balk1660 obstruent1669 blockade1683 sprun1684 spoke1689 cross cause1696 uncomplaisance1707 barrier1712 obstruct1747 dike1770 abatis1808 underbrush1888 bunker1900 bump1909 sprag1914 hurdle1924 headwind1927 mudhole1933 monkey wrench1937 roadblock1945 the world > action or operation > easiness > easy, easily, or without difficulty [phrase] with a wet finger1542 for the whistling1546 like a bird1825 as easy (or simple) as falling (or rolling) off a log1839 without tears1857 like a dream1882 as easy as winking1907 the mind > will > intention > planning > plotting > plot [verb (intransitive)] > promote one's own interest to have a log to roll1865 1579–80 T. North tr. Annibal in Plutarch Lives (1595) 1148 Anniball..knew that this great ouerthrow..would also be a great logge in his way. c1600 Timon (1980) i. ii. 6 Thou logg thou stock, thou Arcadian beast. 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge v. iv. sig. I4v The saplesse logge, that prest thy bed With an vnpleasing waight. 1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea lxi. 152 In this conflict, having lost all her Mastes, and being no other then a logge in the Sea. 1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. xx. 71 The flapping sail haul'd down to halt for logs like these. 1839 Daily Picayune (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’. 1850 H. C. Watson Camp-fires Revol. 55 ‘Bill,’ said one of the party, to a pale, sickly-looking individual, ‘we must keep the log rollin'.’ 1865 Daily 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. 1874 J. W. Long Amer. Wild-fowl Shooting 156 I reckon ‘somebody's cut the log open’ as the saying is out here, from the way they are coming. c1880 ‘M. Twain’ Speeches (1923) 97 A man who could have elected himself Major-General Adam or anything else as easy as rolling off a log. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island ii. vii. 59 I must have..slept like a log. 1898 Daily News 19 May 7/6 Mr. Gladstone..pathetically remarked that he was now like a log. 1900 Longman's Mag. June 134 [He] struck Bill who fell like a log on the dusty road. 1904 ‘A. Dale’ Wanted: Cook 207 It was so easy that the inelegant simile of ‘rolling off a log’ impressed me as being absolutely justifiable. 1913 F. H. Burnett T. Tembarom xvii. 223 I dropped into it by accident,..and that made it as easy as falling off a log. 1949 N. Marsh Swing, Brother, Swing iv. 67 Don't keep asking if I can understand things that are as simple as falling off a log. 1973 Times 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.) ΚΠ 1860 Eng. & Foreign Mining Gloss. (new ed.) (S. Staffs. Terms) Log, or Baby, a balance weight, placed near the end of the pit-rope, to prevent its running back over the pulley. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 152 Log, S. Staff[ordshire]. A balance-weight near the end of the hoisting-rope of a shaft to prevent its running back over the pulley. ΚΠ 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (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. ΚΠ 1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 108 Something sure is in it, that Impostors finde such quick return for their ware, while Truth hangs upon the log. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > bench > [noun] > specific benches penniless bench1560 log1609 1609 T. Dekker Guls Horne-bk. sig. D1v Auoide the Seruingmans Logg, and approch not within fiue fadom of that Piller. 1639 J. Mayne Citye Match iii. iii. 31. g. Surfing. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > [noun] > surfboard > types of paddle-board1785 bellyboard1957 pig-board1959 malibu1962 gun1963 hot dog1963 pop-out1963 sausage board1963 skim-board1965 wakeboard1966 log1967 pintail1967 longboard1970 boogie board1976 bodyboard1979 thruster1982 mini-mal1988 funboard1992 kitesurfer1994 kiteboard1996 quad1999 1967 J. Severson Great Surfing Gloss. Log, a very heavy surfboard. 1970 Stud. in Eng. (Univ. Cape Town) 1 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 figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > [noun] > one who or that which hinders > a hindrance, impediment, or obstacle hinderc1200 withsetting1340 obstaclec1385 traversea1393 mara1400 bayc1440 stoppagec1450 barrace1480 blocka1500 objecta1500 clog1526 stumbling-stone1526 bar1530 (to cast) a trump in (one's) way1548 stumbling-stock1548 hindrance1576 a log in one's way1579 crossbar1582 log1589 rub1589 threshold1600 scotch1601 dam1602 remora1604 obex1611 obstructiona1616 stumbling-blocka1616 fence1639 affront1642 retardance1645 stick1645 balk1660 obstruent1669 blockade1683 sprun1684 spoke1689 cross cause1696 uncomplaisance1707 barrier1712 obstruct1747 dike1770 abatis1808 underbrush1888 bunker1900 bump1909 sprag1914 hurdle1924 headwind1927 mudhole1933 monkey wrench1937 roadblock1945 society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > [noun] > bond(s) or fetter(s) or shackle(s) > for the feet or legs > piece of wood clog1450 log1837 1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. B Her Maiestie layeth such a logge vppon their consciences, as they ought not beare. a1592 H. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 483 Wedlock, with wife and children clogs, The single life, lust's heavier logs. 1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 193 They [insane negroes] were kept in out-houses, chained to logs. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xxviii. 344 Here I am, tied like a log to you. 1853 J. B. Marsden Hist. Early Puritans (ed. 2) 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.) Obsolete exc. Historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > other types of punishment > [noun] > military or naval punishments > having log fixed to leg log1830 1830 in Rep. Commiss. Milit. Punishments (1836) 312 The log..is a punishment..which cannot be sanctioned and is henceforth strictly forbidden. 1846 H. Marshall Mil. 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’. ΚΠ 1675 J. Crowne Countrey Wit iv. 78 Go, sir, Manage him—whilst I handle Log, the Second King of Frogs, that follows him. 1761 J. Wesley Jrnl. 18 Jan. The custom began in the reign of king Log. 1766 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 11 July (1932) (modernized text) VI. 2747 I have always owned a great regard for King Log. 1901 M. J. F. McCarthy Five Years Ireland xxiii. 320 They prefer King Log to King Stork. 4. plural. Australian slang. A jail or lock-up. (Formerly built of logs. Cf. log-house n. at Compounds 2.) ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] quarternOE prisona1200 jailc1275 lodgec1290 galleya1300 chartrea1325 ward1338 keepingc1384 prison-house1419 lying-house1423 javel1483 tollbooth1488 kidcotec1515 clinkc1530 warding-place1571 the hangman's budget1589 Newgate1592 gehenna1594 Lob's pound1597 caperdewsie1599 footman's inn1604 cappadochio1607 pena1640 marshalsea1652 log-house1662 bastille1663 naskin1673 state prison1684 tronk1693 stone-doublet1694 iron or stone doublet1698 college1699 nask1699 quod1699 shop1699 black hole1707 start1735 coop1785 blockhouse1796 stone jug1796 calaboose1797 factory1806 bull-pen1809 steel1811 jigger1812 jug1815 kitty1825 rock pile1830 bughouse1842 zindan1844 model1845 black house1846 tench1850 mill1851 stir1851 hoppet1855 booby hatch1859 caboose1865 cooler1872 skookum house1873 chokey1874 gib1877 nick1882 choker1884 logs1888 booby house1894 big house1905 hoosegow1911 can1912 detention camp1916 pokey1919 slammer1952 joint1953 slam1960 1802 Barrington's Hist. New S. Wales 184 The governor resolved on building a large log prison both at Sydney and Paramatta.] 1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms II. vi. 106 Let's put him in the logs. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right III. xxx. 33 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. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > building stone > stone of the nature of slate > piece as taken from quarry log1725 1725 D. 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. 1939 Evening 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. 1946 N. 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’. 1975 Times 9 Aug. 12/7 Collyweston slate is unusual in that it is produced by the action of frost on the stone logs. II. Nautical 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. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > device to ascertain ship's speed through water log1574 marine surveyor1726 chip log1846 bottom gear1867 1574 W. Bourne Regim. for Sea (1577) xiv. 42 b They hale in the logge or piece of wood again, and looke how many fadome the shippe hath gone in that time. 1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. at Logg-line One stands by with a Minut~glasse, while another out of the gallery lets fall the logg. 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. iv. ii. 146 We throw the Log every two Hours. 1686 J. Dunton Lett. from New Eng. (1867) 28 Being about 50 Leagues off the Lizard..we began to sail by the Log. 1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth III. 305 Heave the Logg from the Poop. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Log It is usual to heave the log once every hour in ships of war. 1805 E. Berry in Ld. Nelson Disp. & Lett. (1846) VII. 118 (note) During the chace we ran per log seventy miles. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. xii. 156 It's now within five minutes of two bells, so we'll heave the log and mark the board. 1863 S. Baring-Gould Iceland 178 Calculating their way by the log. 1876 Catal. Special Loan Coll. Sci. Apparatus S. Kensington Mus. 54 Patent Log, for measuring speed at sea; used in H.M. Navy. 7. a. Short for logbook n. A journal into which the contents of the log-board or log-slate are daily transcribed, together with any other circumstance deserving notice. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > record or account of (a) journey(s > [noun] itinerary1483 peregrination1548 travels1579 voyage1587 itinerario1588 journal1600 trip1712 itinerarium1747 logbook1791 tour1812 log1825 travel document1892 travelogue1898 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > ship's papers > [noun] > logbook traverse book1600 sea-booka1642 journal1671 logbooka1679 rough logbook1779 log1825 sea-log1853 1825 H. B. Gascoigne Path to Naval Fame 79 Then down he goes his daily Log to write. 1850 H. T. Cheever Whale & his Captors vi. 107 To fix the localities of whales' resorts by the comparison of the logs of a vast number of whalers. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island iv. xviii. 147 The captain sat down to his log, and here is the beginning of the entry. b. (See quot. 1875.) ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. 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. = logbook n. 3. ΚΠ 1882 in 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. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > drilling for oil or gas > [noun] > record of findings log1913 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport of goods in a vehicle > [noun] > by motor lorry > record kept of journey log1913 logbook1958 log sheet1958 society > communication > broadcasting > [noun] > record of what is broadcast log1937 1913 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 21 671 This company has prepared logs of various..salt wells. 1920 L. 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. 1924 G. W. Grupp Econ. Motor Transportation ix. 187 Nothing is more interesting than..making..a motor-truck performance log. 1925 K. 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. 1937 L. Lewis Radio Dict. in Printers' Ink Monthly May 39/2 Log, an account of every minute of broadcasting, all errors being considered. An accurate journal required by law. 1956 Nature 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. 1957 M. R. J. Wyllie Fund. Electr. Log Interpr. (ed. 2) ii. 105 Even in dirty formations the neutron log can sometimes give a fairly good estimate of porosity. 1957 M. R. J. Wyllie Fund. Electr. Log Interpr. (ed. 2) ii. 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. 1960 J. 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. 1963 Amer. Speech 38 44 Log, log book, the driver's daily report required by the I.C.C. 1965 W. S. Barry Airline Managem. x. 149 Station logs report troubles that have occurred during embarkation or disembarkation. 1968 Radio 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. 1974 Sci. Amer. May 133/3 These men filled out sleep logs (for pay) and answered many questions. 8. Tailoring. [transferred < 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. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > [noun] > records, reports, or documents bookc1405 memoir1571 transfer-book1694 order book1771 job note1803 log1861 deed of association1866 logbook1869 job sheet1919 kanban1977 1861 Dunn'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. 1868 10th Rep. Commissioners Organization & Rules Trades Unions 17 in Parl. Papers XXXIX. 445 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’. Compounds C1. a. Simple attributive. (a) log-end n. ΚΠ 1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα i. xiv. 122 The most heavy log-end of Christs Cross is laid upon many of them. log-fire n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > a fire > [noun] > a kind of fire > other fires moorburn1424 coal firea1450 commonty fire1573 moor-burning1610 stubble-firea1618 wheel-fire1662 night-fire1687 waterball1696 chip fire1795 neal-fire1813 bratchel1815 forge-fire1855 log-fire1878 electrical fire1900 slash fire1949 dumpster fire1957 chip pan fire1960 chip fire1985 1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz in La Saisiaz: Two Poets of Croisic 1 Praise the good log-fire! Winter howls without. log-mark n. ΚΠ 1859 Michigan Rep. 6 270 The Mill Company had given a list of log-marks under section eight of the act. (b) (With the sense ‘made of or constructed with logs’.) log barn n. ΚΠ 1795 Pittsburgh Gaz. 6 June 1/2 To be Sold..two cabins, a log barn. 1845 S. Judd Margaret i. iii. 12 On the east side of the road was a log-barn. 1948 Time 11 Oct. 21/1 A country which still remembered Indians, wild turkeys, log barns, [etc.]. log barrack n. ΚΠ a1861 T. Winthrop Life in Open Air (1863) 32 All residents of Damville dwelt in a great log-barrack. 1862 O. W. Norton Army Lett. 64 When we came back we burned all the log barracks and brush houses at the fort. log-booth n. ΚΠ 1862 H. Marryat One Year in Sweden II. 371 Two rows of weatherbeaten log-booths. log-bridge n. ΚΠ 1664 in H. M. Burt First Cent. Hist. Springfield (1898) I. 316 Foure acres of low lands Northwestrly from the logg bridge as it is called. log building n. ΚΠ 1806 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi i. App. 36 [The fur-trading establishment] at Lower Red Cedar Lake..consists of log buildings. 1816 U. Brown Jrnl. in Maryland Hist. Mag. 10 281 I saw..many very good & 2 Story log Buildings. log causeway n. ΚΠ 1828 Gore Gaz. (Ancaster, Upper Canada) 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. 1831 T. 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. log-chamber n. ΚΠ 1788 M. Cutler Jrnl. 4 Aug. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 401 We were turned into a hot, log chamber, full of people. log chapel n. ΚΠ 1810 F. Asbury Jrnl. (1821) III. 298 Saturday, at William Adams's log-chapel I preached to a small assembly. log church n. ΚΠ 1847 F. Parkman in Knickerbocker 29 313 We found the log-church..belonging to the Methodist Shawanoe Mission. 1895 M. A. Jackson Mem. Stonewall Jackson (ed. 2) 382 The little log church is..full. log city n. ΚΠ 1817 S. R. Brown Western Gazetteer 106 Vangeville,—A log city..has fifteen or twenty old log houses. log college n. ΚΠ 1795 P. M. Freneau Poems 374 On the Demolition of a Log-College. 1850 W. H. Foote Sketches Virginia 349 Could we..look into the school of the worthy pastor, then gaining its eminence as ‘a log college’. log-fence n. ΚΠ 1684 I. Mather Providences 167 He hath had five Rods of good Log-fence thrown down at once. 1764 Coll. New-Hampsh. Hist. Soc. IX. 154 [I] made log fence around my..orchard. 1803 T. M. Harris Jrnl. Tour 6 June (1805) 58 [In Virginia] the fields are surrounded by a rough zig-zag log-fence. 1836 J. Abbott Way to do Good i. 24 They were stepping over a low place in the log fence. ΚΠ 1808 T. Ashe Trav. Amer. 1806 I. 302 The town..has in its centre, the remains of an old Log Guard. log heap n. ΚΠ 1818 L. D. Clarke in Firelands Pioneer (1920) XXI. 2324 I spread ashes where log-heaps had been burned. 1819 E. Dana Geogr. Sketches 36 The Creoles never having before smelted, except by throwing the ore into log heaps. 1838 J. Hall Western States vii. 104 People will not forever..warm themselves by log-heaps built in great wooden chimnies. 1856 A. Cary Married 295 Having made a log-heap fire, Martin put the table-cloth about his shoulders. 1933 E. C. Guillet Early Life Upper Canada 277 In new settlements during July the whole countryside was illuminated by the burning of log heaps. log-hut n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun] > types of lonquhardc1480 hothouse1643 ajoupa1666 penthouse1683 pandal?1692 bark-hut1744 log-tent1748 log cabin1770 bush-hut1775 log-hut1778 yurt1780 isba1784 beach hut1806 whare1807 bough-house1811 pondok1815 grass hut1818 hartebeest house1818 leaf hut1818 gunyah1820 grass house1823 slab-and-bark hut1826 slab-and-shingle hut1826 slab whare1826 rondavel1829 bush-house1835 skerm1835 jacal1838 toldo1839 log-shanty1847 wurley1847 maloca1853 palm hut1853 whare1853 hutmenta1857 bush-shanty1857 benab1860 pondokkie1862 bothan1863 lanaia1869 hogan1872 tenta1873 beehive-hut1884 leaf shelter1886 Oklahoma1889 goondie1890 cabana1898 troolie hut1899 tukul1901 fale1902 banda1908 kya1909 hut1913 obi1913 Nissen hut1917 Nissen1919 basha1921 tourist cabin1928 bunkie1935 wanigan1937 Quonset hut1942 chickee1943 iron lung1943 Quonset1943 1778 J. Thatcher Mil. Jrnl. 153 In the month of December, the troops were employed in erecting log huts for winter quarters. 1797 J. A. Graham Descriptive Sketch Vermont 161 As in a former Letter I mentioned the Log Hut, I will here..give a short account of its construction. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right I. vi. 150 Log-huts, with the walls built, American fashion, of horizontal tree-trunks. log kitchen n. ΚΠ 1874 E. Eggleston Circuit Rider v. 56 The wide old log-kitchen, with its loom in one corner. 1948 Florida Hist. Q. July 40 Close to many of the larger houses were log kitchens where cooking and eating took place. log meeting-house n. ΚΠ 1823 Baptist Mag. 4 74 We have a good log meeting-house on Salt Creek. log pen n. ΚΠ 1789 M. L. Weems Let. in Ford's M. L. Weems: Wks. & Ways (1929) III. 148 I lodged in a log-pen. 1832 Louisville 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. log pound n. ΚΠ 1737 in 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. log prison n. ΚΠ 1802 Barrington's Hist. New S. Wales 184 The governor resolved on building a large log prison. 1845 C. M. Kirkland Western Clearings 212 I went to prison; nothing but a log prison. log-road n. ΚΠ 1819 F. Wright Views (1821) 234 A log road, or causeway, as it is denominated, is very grievous to the limbs. log room n. ΚΠ 1743 D. Brainerd Let. 30 Apr. in J. Edwards Acct. Life D. Brainerd (1749) 261 It is a Log-Room, without any Floor, that I lodge in. 1903 S. E. White Conjuror's House x. 119 Virginia entered a small log room..and sat down in a musty red armchair. log-shanty n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun] > types of lonquhardc1480 hothouse1643 ajoupa1666 penthouse1683 pandal?1692 bark-hut1744 log-tent1748 log cabin1770 bush-hut1775 log-hut1778 yurt1780 isba1784 beach hut1806 whare1807 bough-house1811 pondok1815 grass hut1818 hartebeest house1818 leaf hut1818 gunyah1820 grass house1823 slab-and-bark hut1826 slab-and-shingle hut1826 slab whare1826 rondavel1829 bush-house1835 skerm1835 jacal1838 toldo1839 log-shanty1847 wurley1847 maloca1853 palm hut1853 whare1853 hutmenta1857 bush-shanty1857 benab1860 pondokkie1862 bothan1863 lanaia1869 hogan1872 tenta1873 beehive-hut1884 leaf shelter1886 Oklahoma1889 goondie1890 cabana1898 troolie hut1899 tukul1901 fale1902 banda1908 kya1909 hut1913 obi1913 Nissen hut1917 Nissen1919 basha1921 tourist cabin1928 bunkie1935 wanigan1937 Quonset hut1942 chickee1943 iron lung1943 Quonset1943 1847 H. Howe Hist. Coll. Ohio 492 They fell to work..erecting bark huts and log shanties. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People i. §3. 25 He made his way at last to a group of log-shanties in the midst of untilled solitudes. log stable n. ΚΠ 1834 Southern Literary Messenger 1 120 In the log stable..I saw a number of them. log tavern n. ΚΠ 1810 F. Cuming Sketches Tour Western Country 44 We stopped to feed our horses at a small log tavern. 1847 H. Howe Hist. Coll. Ohio 293 Newark..then contained five or six log-cabins and Black's log tavern. 1874 E. Eggleston Circuit Rider xvi. 147 Morton was conducted three miles down the river to a log tavern. log tenement n. ΚΠ 1829 J. F. Cooper Borderers III. i. 27 The log tenement, the stacks,..were sending forth clouds of murky smoke. 1841 J. F. Cooper Deerslayer I. ii. 38 The furniture was of the strange mixture that it is not uncommon to find in the remotely situated log-tenements of the interior. log-tent n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun] > types of lonquhardc1480 hothouse1643 ajoupa1666 penthouse1683 pandal?1692 bark-hut1744 log-tent1748 log cabin1770 bush-hut1775 log-hut1778 yurt1780 isba1784 beach hut1806 whare1807 bough-house1811 pondok1815 grass hut1818 hartebeest house1818 leaf hut1818 gunyah1820 grass house1823 slab-and-bark hut1826 slab-and-shingle hut1826 slab whare1826 rondavel1829 bush-house1835 skerm1835 jacal1838 toldo1839 log-shanty1847 wurley1847 maloca1853 palm hut1853 whare1853 hutmenta1857 bush-shanty1857 benab1860 pondokkie1862 bothan1863 lanaia1869 hogan1872 tenta1873 beehive-hut1884 leaf shelter1886 Oklahoma1889 goondie1890 cabana1898 troolie hut1899 tukul1901 fale1902 banda1908 kya1909 hut1913 obi1913 Nissen hut1917 Nissen1919 basha1921 tourist cabin1928 bunkie1935 wanigan1937 Quonset hut1942 chickee1943 iron lung1943 Quonset1943 1748 H. Ellis Voy. Hudson's-Bay 154 Some of the People were employed in cutting Fire-Wood, others in building Log-Tents. log-trap n. ΚΠ 1784 J. Belknap Jrnl. 29 July in Tour to White Mts. (1876) 13 We saw the..log-traps, which the hunters set for sables. 1823 S. H. Long Exped. I. 155 This was a log trap, in which one log is elevated above another at one end. log wall n. ΚΠ 1840 Knickerbocker 16 247 I looked around on the bare log-walls and ceiling. 1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. ix. 60 The interstices of the log-wall were ‘chinked’. log-way n. ΚΠ 1779 in 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. 1822 Z. Hawley Tour 95 A nest of ground hornets, concealed under the logway. 1874 B. 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. 1973 A. Price in Winter's Crimes 5 202 The driver..had driven the cart off the logway. (c) (‘For use in dealing with logs’.) log-boom n. ΚΠ 1878 Lumberman's Gaz. 6 Apr. An addition to the wharf and a log boom are being made. log-car n. ΚΠ 1881 Chicago Times 11 June The track upon which runs the log-car. log-chain n. ΚΠ 1703 in Early Rec. Town of Providence (Rhode Island) (1894) VI. 224, i Logg chaine. 1872 A. W. Tourgée Invisible Empire (1880) x. 473 She was..finally choked with a log-chain until she was insensible. 1901 S. Merwin & H. K. Webster Calumet ‘K’ xi. 203 I had a few lengths of log chain handy. log-railway n. ΚΠ 1858 H. D. Thoreau Chesuncook in Atlantic Monthly June 5/2 A truck drawn by an ox and a horse over a rude log-railway through the woods. log-sled n. ΚΠ 1878 Lumberman's Gaz. 2 Feb. 89 He has constructed a road of ice..on which the log-sleds slip along readily. log-sleigh n. ΚΠ 1893 Scribner's Mag. June 706/2 The log-sleighs have ten, twelve, and even fourteen-foot bunks, or cross beams, on which the load rests. log-stamp n. ΚΠ 1878 Lumberman's Gaz. 5 Jan. Wyburn's improved log stamp is convenient for marking logs with the exact number of feet. (d) (Sense 8.) log prices n. ΚΠ 1888 Lancet 26 May 1049/1 Tailors..obtaining ‘log’ prices—that is, the highest rate of wages. log-shop n. ΚΠ 1899 Contemp. Rev. Mar. 382 There are quite a number of Jewish coat makers working for ‘private’ or ‘log’ shops. (e) (In sense ‘for use in dealing with logs’.) log skid n. ΚΠ 1923 C. M. Malfroy Small Sawmills 17 The logging delivery-tram, mill log-skids, engine, breakdown bench. 1957 N.Z. Timber Jrnl. Oct. 73/2 Log skids, a platform on which logs are stacked in the forest to assist loading on to trucks. b. Objective. (Sense 1.) (a) log-carrying adj. ΚΠ 1898 Daily News 16 June 5/2 It is strange to hear that the aged poor are still at oakum-picking or log-carrying. log-driving adj. ΚΠ 1879 Lumberman's Gaz. 19 Dec. The dam will be used for flowage and log-driving purposes. log-hauling adj. ΚΠ 1893 Scribner's Mag. June 706/2 There is great strife between the teamsters in making log-hauling records. log-heaving adj. ΚΠ 1823 W. Faux Mem. Days Amer. 180 Log-heaving, that is, rolling trees together for burning, is done by the neighbours in a body, invited for the purpose. log-mauling adj. ΚΠ 1860 Oregon Argus 17 Mar. The judge's style as a stumper is of a heavy, log-mauling kind. log-raising adj. ΚΠ 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. 1897 E. W. Brodhead Bound in Shallows 169 Law, the log-raisin's and corn-huskin's they used to have! (b) log-cutter n. ΚΠ 1893 Scribner's Mag. June 710/2 At night he must get from the log-cutters their count for the day. log-hauler n. ΚΠ 1919 W. T. Grenfell Labrador Doctor (1920) xiii. 233 The log-hauler would not deliver the goods to the rotary saw. 1962 Amer. Speech 37 134 Log hauler, an engineer on a logging train. log-lumberer n. ΚΠ 1909 Westm. 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. log-maker n. ΚΠ 1880 Lumberman's Gaz. 7 Jan. 28 Next come the ‘log-makers’, working in gangs of three or four, each with its ‘chief’. (c) (Sense 7.) log-reading n. ΚΠ 1901 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 476/1 The modern navigator has buried the best part of his astronomy under a heap of dead reckonings and log-readings. c. Instrumental. log-built adj. ΚΠ 1833 C. F. Hoffman Let. 15 Nov. in Winter in West (1835) I. 91 We stopped to breakfast at a low log-built shantee. 1855 Knickerbocker Mag. 46 225 The nuptials were celebrated in the one-story ‘ten-by-six’ log-built mansion of the bride's father. 1902 S. E. White Conjuror's House ix. 111 Your work here among the Indians is rot... You coop them up in your log-built houses. 1937 Discovery Nov. 344/2 This sole surviving example of the log-built churches, once common in the forest region of Essex. log-lighted adj. ΚΠ a1847 E. Cook Gray-haired Dec. iii The log-lighted hall. d. Similative. log-like adj. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [adjective] unlustyc1225 sleepyc1384 phlegmatica1400 listlessc1440 owlist1440 unlisty1440 phlegmyc1450 sweyntc1450 supine1554 resty1565 unactive1591 sleepy-headed1600 log-like1602 inertious1611 stupefied?1611 lethargic1612 sedentary1625 torpent1647 torpid1656 torpulent1657 softly1664 inert1774 vegetative1789 spiritless1798 unenergetic1805 sloomy1820 slow-going1825 inenergetic1826 comatose1828 moony1847 mooning1864 torpid-minded1909 narcoleptic1965 vegged1986 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge i. v. sig. Cv A chaine that's fixt Onely to postes, and senslesse log-like dolts. log-wise adv. ΚΠ 1879 R. Browning Halbert & Hob 37 So logwise..Was he pushed, a very log. C2. Special combinations: log-basket n. a basket, or similar receptacle, for holding logs by a fire. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > wood as fuel > [noun] > place in which to store wood wood-yard1309 wood-garth1343 wood-house1356 kid-helm1501 wood-pleck1521 wood-hole1668 chip yard1829 log-basket1902 1902 Westm. Gaz. 17 Dec. 8/2 A really nice log-basket in wrought iron. 1972 Country Life 14 Dec. 1697/2 A split-willow log basket—22 in. long, 18 in. wide and 12 in. high, it costs £4.00. log-beam n. (see quot.). ΚΠ a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 558/2 Log-Beam, the traveling frame in which a log lies and travels in a saw-mill. log-board n. a hinged pair of boards on which the particulars of a ship's log are noted for transcription into the logbook. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > ship's papers > [noun] > logbook > board or slate for taking notes log-board1669 rough log1819 log-slate1834 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. iv. ii. 146 Next we will work the Courses of the Log-board. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. xii. 156 O'Brien reported the rate of sailing to the master, marked it down on the log-board, and then returned. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Log-board. log-butter n. ‘a drag-saw for butting, i.e. cutting off square the ends of logs’ (Knight). log-buttings n. the ends thus cut off. ΚΠ 1879 Lumberman's Gaz. 15 Oct. A machine that would utilize..Log Buttings. log-camp n. = logging-camp n. at logging n. Compounds 1. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > camp or encampment > [noun] > type of ordu1673 chantier1823 douar1829 outcamp1844 log-camp1858 lumbering-camp1858 yayla1864 refugee camp1865 cow-camp1873 gypsyry1873 work camp1877 tent town1878 logging-camp1880 lumber-camp1882 town camp1885 base camp1887 line-camp1888 wanigan1890 isolation camp1891 tent village1899 sheep-camp1911 safari camp1912 jungle1914 transit camp1919 Siwash camp1922 health camp1925 tent city1934 fly camp1939 bivvy1961 1858 H. D. Thoreau Chesuncook in Atlantic Monthly Aug. 306/1 My companion inclined to go to the log-camp on the carry. log-canoe n. one hollowed out of a single tree. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > vessels of primitive construction > [noun] > canoe of indigenous peoples > dug-out troughc893 cot1537 monoxylon1555 toni1582 piragua1599 pitpan1726 log-canoe1752 monoxyle1775 corial1796 dugout1819 montaria1853 lakatoi1885 mokoro1897 doonga1905 curiara1910 1752 P. 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. 1788 R. Putnam Let. 16 May in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 379 Our whole fleet consisted of..three log canoes of different sizes. 1841 G. Powers Hist. Sketches Coos Country 130 He took a log-canoe, and ascended the river to the place where Orford bridge now is. log-chip n. = log-ship n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > device to ascertain ship's speed through water > line of > piece of wood at end chip1824 log-ship1841 log-chip1846 1846Log-chip [see log-ship n.]. log-cock n. ‘one of the many local names in North America of Picus pileatus (Woodpecker)’ (Newton). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Picidae > dryocopus pileatus log-cock1806 woodcock1809 1806 M. Lewis Jrnl. 4 Mar. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1990) VI. 379 The large woodpecker or log cock. 1853 ‘P. Paxton’ Stray Yankee in Texas 58 The log-cock, with his gaudy head~dress. 1866 Intellectual Observer No. 53. 333 The Log-cock (Hylatomus Pileatus). 1884 J. Burroughs in Cent. Mag. Dec. 222/2 The log-cock, or pileated woodpecker..I have never heard drum. log-crop n. the quantity of logs hewn in one season. ΚΠ 1879 Lumberman's Gaz. 7 May The delivery of the log crop of Michigan. log-deck n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 42 Log deck, the platform upon a loading jack. log-drive n. (see drive n. 3a). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > transport of logs flume1784 log-rollinga1792 drive1835 river-driving1843 river drive1845 sluice-way1851 sacking1860 timber drivea1861 skidding1877 log-running1878 skid road1880 rigging1897 swamping1902 log-drivea1904 high lead1905 high-lining1919 a1904 S. E. White Blazed Trail Stories ii. 25 He started up river for the log-drive. 1904 N.Y. Evening Post 3 May 2 The annual log-drives have begun in the upper Hudson watershed. log-fish n. a fish of the U.S. coast Lirus perciformis. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > [noun] > suborder Stromatoidei > lirus perciformis (barrel-fish) blackfish1601 rudderfish1818 barrel-fish1884 log-fish1884 1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 334 The Black Rudder-fish—Lirus perciformis. This fish is also called by the fishermen ‘Log-fish’ and ‘Barrel-fish.’ log frame n. ‘a name for a saw-mill’ (Knight). log-glass n. (see quot. 1858). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > device to ascertain ship's speed through water > timer half-minute glass1690 log-glass1814 1814 Sailor's Return ii. iii, in J. Galt 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. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 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. log-head n. = blockhead n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > stupid person, dolt, blockhead > [noun] asseOE sotc1000 beastc1225 long-ear?a1300 stock1303 buzzard1377 mis-feelinga1382 dasarta1400 stonea1400 dasiberd14.. dottlec1400 doddypoll1401 dastardc1440 dotterel1440 dullardc1440 wantwit1449 jobardc1475 nollc1475 assheada1500 mulea1500 dull-pate15.. peak1509 dulbert?a1513 doddy-patec1525 noddypolla1529 hammer-head1532 dull-head?1534 capon1542 dolt1543 blockhead1549 cod's head1549 mome1550 grout-head1551 gander1553 skit-brains?1553 blocka1556 calfa1556 tomfool1565 dunce1567 druggard1569 cobble1570 dummel1570 Essex calf1573 jolthead1573 hardhead1576 beetle-head1577 dor-head1577 groutnoll1578 grosshead1580 thickskin1582 noddyship?1589 jobbernowl1592 beetle-brain1593 Dorbel1593 oatmeal-groat1594 loggerhead1595 block-pate1598 cittern-head1598 noddypoop1598 dorbellist1599 numps1599 dor1601 stump1602 ram-head1605 look-like-a-goose1606 ruff1606 clod1607 turf1607 asinego1609 clot-poll1609 doddiea1611 druggle1611 duncecomb1612 ox-head1613 clod-polla1616 dulman1615 jolterhead1620 bullhead1624 dunderwhelpa1625 dunderhead1630 macaroona1631 clod-patea1635 clota1637 dildo1638 clot-pate1640 stupid1640 clod-head1644 stub1644 simpletonian1652 bottle-head1654 Bœotiana1657 vappe1657 lackwit1668 cudden1673 plant-animal1673 dolt-head1679 cabbage head1682 put1688 a piece of wood1691 ouphe1694 dunderpate1697 numbskull1697 leather-head1699 nocky1699 Tom Cony1699 mopus1700 bluff-head1703 clod skull1707 dunny1709 dowf1722 stupe1722 gamphrel1729 gobbin?1746 duncehead1749 half-wit1755 thick-skull1755 jackass1756 woollen-head1756 numbhead1757 beef-head1775 granny1776 stupid-head1792 stunpolla1794 timber-head1794 wether heada1796 dummy1796 noghead1800 staumrel1802 muttonhead1803 num1807 dummkopf1809 tumphya1813 cod's head and shoulders1820 stoopid1823 thick-head1824 gype1825 stob1825 stookiea1828 woodenhead1831 ning-nong1832 log-head1834 fat-head1835 dunderheadism1836 turnip1837 mudhead1838 donkey1840 stupex1843 cabbage1844 morepork1845 lubber-head1847 slowpoke1847 stupiditarian1850 pudding-head1851 cod's head and shoulders1852 putty head1853 moke1855 mullet-head1855 pothead1855 mug1857 thick1857 boodle1862 meathead1863 missing link1863 half-baked1866 lunk1867 turnip-head1869 rummy1872 pumpkin-head1876 tattie1879 chump1883 dully1883 cretin1884 lunkhead1884 mopstick1886 dumbhead1887 peanut head1891 pie-face1891 doughbakea1895 butt-head1896 pinhead1896 cheesehead1900 nyamps1900 box head1902 bonehead1903 chickenhead1903 thickwit1904 cluck1906 boob1907 John1908 mooch1910 nitwit1910 dikkop1913 goop1914 goofus1916 rumdum1916 bone dome1917 moron1917 oik1917 jabroni1919 dumb-bell1920 knob1920 goon1921 dimwit1922 ivory dome1923 stone jug1923 dingleberry1924 gimp1924 bird brain1926 jughead1926 cloth-head1927 dumb1928 gazook1928 mouldwarp1928 ding-dong1929 stupido1929 mook1930 sparrow-brain1930 knobhead1931 dip1932 drip1932 epsilon1932 bohunkus1933 Nimrod1933 dumbass1934 zombie1936 pea-brain1938 knot-head1940 schlump1941 jarhead1942 Joe Soap1943 knuckle-head1944 nong1944 lame-brain1945 gobshite1946 rock-head1947 potato head1948 jerko1949 turkey1951 momo1953 poop-head1955 a right one1958 bam1959 nong-nong1959 dickhead1960 dumbo1960 Herbert1960 lamer1961 bampot1962 dipshit1963 bamstick1965 doofus1965 dick1966 pillock1967 zipperhead1967 dipstick1968 thickie1968 poephol1969 yo-yo1970 doof1971 cockhead1972 nully1973 thicko1976 wazzock1976 motorhead1979 mouth-breather1979 no-brainer1979 jerkwad1980 woodentop1981 dickwad1983 dough ball1983 dickweed1984 bawheid1985 numpty1985 jerkweed1988 dick-sucker1989 knob-end1989 Muppet1989 dingus1997 dicksack1999 eight ball- 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. vii, in Fraser's Mag. Mar. 311/2 Not being born purely a Loghead (Dummkopf), thou hadst no other outlook. log-headed adj. having a head like a log. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adjective] sloweOE stuntc960 dullOE hardOE stuntlyc1000 sotc1050 dillc1175 dulta1225 simplea1325 heavy1340 astonedc1374 sheepishc1380 dull-witteda1387 lourd1390 steerishc1411 ass-likea1425 brainless?a1439 deafc1440 sluggishc1450 short-witted1477 obtuse1509 peakish1519 wearish1519 deaf, or dumb as a beetle1520 doileda1522 gross1526 headlessa1530 stulty1532 ass-headed1533 pot-headed1533 stupid?1541 sheep's head1542 doltish1543 dumpish1545 assish1548 blockish1548 slow-witted1548 blockheaded1549 surd1551 dull-headed1552 hammer-headed1552 skit-brained?1553 buzzardly1561 witless1562 log-headeda1566 assy1566 sottish1566 dastardly1567 stupidious1567 beetle-headed1570 calvish1570 bluntish1578 cod's-headed1578 grout-headed1578 bedaft1579 dull-pated1580 blate1581 buzzard-like1581 long-eared1582 dullard1583 woodena1586 duncical1588 leaden-headed1589 buzzard1592 dorbellical1592 dunstical1592 heavy-headeda1593 shallow-brained1592 blunt-witted1594 mossy1597 Bœotian1598 clay-brained1598 fat1598 fat-witted1598 knotty-pated1598 stupidous1598 wit-lost1599 barren1600 duncifiedc1600 lourdish1600 stockish1600 thick1600 booby1603 leaden-pated1603 partless1603 thin-headed1603 leaden-skulledc1604 blockhead1606 frost-brained1606 ram-headed1608 beef-witted1609 insulse1609 leaden-spirited1609 asininec1610 clumse1611 blockheadly1612 wattle-headed1613 flata1616 logger-headeda1616 puppy-headeda1616 shallow-patedc1616 thick-brained1619 half-headed1621 buzzard-blinda1625 beef-brained1628 toom-headed1629 thick-witted1634 woollen-witted1635 squirrel-headed1637 clod-pated1639 lean-souled1639 muddy-headed1642 leaden-witteda1645 as sad as any mallet1645 under-headed1646 fat-headed1647 half-witted1647 insipid1651 insulsate1652 soft-headed1653 thick-skulleda1657 muddish1658 non-intelligent1659 whey-brained1660 sap-headed1665 timber-headed1666 leather-headeda1668 out of (one's) tree1669 boobily1673 thoughtless1673 lourdly1674 logger1675 unintelligenta1676 Bœotic1678 chicken-brained1678 under-witted1683 loggerhead1684 dunderheaded1692 unintelligible1694 buffle-headed1697 crassicc1700 numbskulled1707 crassous1708 doddy-polled1708 haggis-headed1715 niddy-noddy1722 muzzy1723 pudding-headed1726 sumphish1728 pitcher-souleda1739 duncey1743 hebete1743 chuckheaded1756 dumb1756 duncely1757 imbecile1766 mutton-headed1768 chuckle-headed1770 jobbernowl1770 dowfarta1774 boobyish1778 wittol1780 staumrel1787 opaquec1789 stoopid1791 mud-headed1793 borné1795 muzzy-headed1798 nog-headed1800 thick-headed1801 gypit1804 duncish1805 lightweight1809 numbskull1814 tup-headed1816 chuckle-pate1820 unintellectuala1821 dense1822 ninnyish1822 dunch1825 fozy1825 potato-headed1826 beef-headed1828 donkeyish1831 blockheadish1833 pinheaded1837 squirrel-minded1837 pumpkin-headed1838 tomfoolish1838 dundering1840 chicken-headed1842 like a bump on a log1842 ninny-minded1849 numbheadeda1852 nincompoopish1852 suet-brained1852 dolly1853 mullet-headed1853 sodden1853 fiddle-headed1854 numb1854 bovine1855 logy1859 crass1861 unsmart1861 off his chump1864 wooden-headed1865 stupe1866 lean-minded1867 duffing1869 cretinous1871 doddering1871 thick-head1873 doddling1874 stupido1879 boneheaded1883 woolly-headed1883 leaden-natured1889 suet-headed1890 sam-sodden1891 dopey1896 turnip-headed1898 bonehead1903 wool-witted1905 peanut-headed1906 peanut-brained1907 dilly1909 torpid-minded1909 retardate1912 nitwitted1917 meat-headed1918 mug1922 cloth-headed1925 loopy1925 nitwit1928 lame-brained1929 dead from the neck up1930 simpy1932 nail-headed1936 square-headed1936 dingbats1937 pinhead1939 dim-witted1940 pea-brained1942 clueless1943 lobotomized1943 retarded1949 pointy-headed1950 clottish1952 like a stunned mullet1953 silly (or crazy) as a two-bob watch1954 out to lunch1955 pin-brained1958 dozy1959 eejity1964 out of one's tiny mind1965 doofus1967 twitty1967 twittish1969 twatty1975 twattish1976 blur1977 dof1979 goofus1981 dickheaded1991 dickish1991 numpty1992 cockish1996 a1566 R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) sig. Eiv The logheaded knaue. 1926 Spectator 24 July 149/1 Anyone..would have been thought log-headed or obstinate. log-house n. a house built of logs; in early use (U.S.) applied to a prison; also attributive in log-house quilting (see quot.). ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] quarternOE prisona1200 jailc1275 lodgec1290 galleya1300 chartrea1325 ward1338 keepingc1384 prison-house1419 lying-house1423 javel1483 tollbooth1488 kidcotec1515 clinkc1530 warding-place1571 the hangman's budget1589 Newgate1592 gehenna1594 Lob's pound1597 caperdewsie1599 footman's inn1604 cappadochio1607 pena1640 marshalsea1652 log-house1662 bastille1663 naskin1673 state prison1684 tronk1693 stone-doublet1694 iron or stone doublet1698 college1699 nask1699 quod1699 shop1699 black hole1707 start1735 coop1785 blockhouse1796 stone jug1796 calaboose1797 factory1806 bull-pen1809 steel1811 jigger1812 jug1815 kitty1825 rock pile1830 bughouse1842 zindan1844 model1845 black house1846 tench1850 mill1851 stir1851 hoppet1855 booby hatch1859 caboose1865 cooler1872 skookum house1873 chokey1874 gib1877 nick1882 choker1884 logs1888 booby house1894 big house1905 hoosegow1911 can1912 detention camp1916 pokey1919 slammer1952 joint1953 slam1960 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house of specific material or construction thatch-house1521 slate house1554 thack housec1600 frame house1627 log-house1662 straw1665 thatch1693 tin-house1798 fog house1799 leaf house1811 rock house1818 black house1819 blockhouse1821 white house1824 slab-and-bark house1826 brown house1845 brush house1854 soddy1877 hurdle-housea1879 bottle house1913 stucco1922 prefab1942 Portal house1944 Airey1945 yali1962 1662 in H. R. Shurtleff Log Cabin Myth (1939) 80 As fare Westwardly as the logg house. 1669 in Arch. Maryland (1884) II. 224 That there be a Logg house Prison Twenty ffoot Square Built..in the Baltemore County. 1680 N. 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. 1741 P. Tailfer et al. Narr. Georgia (1835) 24 He threatned every Person..who..claim'd their just Rights and Privileges with the Stocks, Whipping-Post, and Logg-House. 1784 J. F. D. Smyth Tour U.S.A. II. 9 Constructing temporary habitations (log houses) to reside in. 1806 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set 9th Congr., 2nd Sess. 1113 [He] has built himself some log-houses, and enclosed them with a slight stockade. 1836 C. P. Traill Backwoods of Canada 46 The log-house and shanty..[have] been supplanted by pretty frame-houses. 1853 J. G. Baldwin Flush Times Alabama 142 A few log houses hastily erected and overcrowded with inmates, alone were to be seen. 1879 A. W. Tourgée Fool's Errand vii. 34 This log house had..given way to a more pretentious structure of brick. 1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 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. 1965 Mrs. 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. log-juice n. [compare logwood n. 2, note] slang cheap port wine. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > fortified wine, Madeira wine, and sack > [noun] > port > types of port white port1691 blackstrap1763 Roriz1817 ruby port1817 tawny port1847 log-juice1854 Cockburn1859 black stripe1862 ruby1924 tawny1929 Taylor1940 1854 ‘C. Bede’ Further Adventures Mr. Verdant Green (ed. 2) iii. 19 Mr. B. and party are discovered drinking log-juice, and smoking cabbage-leaves. log-knot n. a knot made in a log-line to indicate a specified length. ΚΠ 1860 in Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 114 Log knots in these..ropes will teach the men the..length. log-line n. a line of 100 fathoms or more to which the log is attached; also the sort of line used for this purpose. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > device to ascertain ship's speed through water > line of log-line1613 minute-line1644 1613 M. Ridley Short Treat. Magneticall Bodies 147 Observing the way with the logge-line. 1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. A Logg-line. Some call this a Minut-line. 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 94 The holes, for marling the clues of sails..have grommets of log-line. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Log-line. log-man n. †(a) one employed to carry logs; (b) one employed in cutting and carrying logs to a mill (U.S. regional). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > other manual or industrial workers > [noun] > who gather or carry wood sticker1422 log-mana1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iii. i. 67 For your sake Am I this patient Logge-man . View more context for this quotation 1845 C. M. Kirkland Western Clearings 175 He turned his hand to the plough, and was the ‘patient log-man’ of a poverty-stricken household. 1870 Daily News 16 Apr. The lumber business is carried on..by the logmen. log-paddock n. a small field fenced in with logs. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > enclosed land or field > small field or enclosure parrockeOE croft969 pightlec1200 curtilagec1330 gartha1340 toftc1440 pingle1546 lot1789 log-paddock1900 1900 H. Lawson On Track 29 He was putting up a two-rail fence along the old log-paddock. log-perch n. a freshwater fish, Percina caprodes, of North America. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Percidae (perches) > [noun] > genus Percina > percina caprodes (log-perch) rockfish1605 hogfish1820 log-perch1882 1882 D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert Synopsis Fishes N. Amer. (Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. III.) 499 Percina, Log Perches. 1882 D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert Synopsis Fishes N. Amer. (Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. III.) 499 P. caprodes..Log Perch; Rock-fish; Hog-molly; Hog-fish. log-pocket n. a basin or pool in which logs collect. ΚΠ 1877 Lumberman's Gaz. 17 Nov. A dam has been built across the river, forming a log pocket. log-reel n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Log-reel, the reel on which the log-line of a ship is wound. log-rule n. (see quot. 1905). ΚΠ 1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 369/1 Log rules, either Scribner or Doyle scale. 1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 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. log-runner n. Australian a ground-dwelling bird of the genus Orthonyx found in northern New South Wales, Queensland, and New Guinea. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > subfamily Orthorhynchidae > genus Orthonyx (log-runner) straight-claw1894 log-runner1898 chowchilla1931 1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 272/1 Log-runner, an Australian bird, called also a Spine~tail. 1901 A. 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 N. W. Cayley What Bird is That? 44 Chowchilla (Northern Log-runner) Orthonyx spaldingi...Call, a series of notes, like ‘Chow-chilla-chow-chow-chilla’. It is also said to be a wonderful mimic. 1934 A. C. Chisholm Bird Wonders Austral. xxi. 206 Settlers in northern Queensland know the Black-headed Logrunner not only as the ‘Auctioneer-bird’, but as the ‘Chowchilla’, since, they say, a company of the birds freely shouts, ‘Chow-chilla-chow-chow’. 1965 Austral. 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. log-running n. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > transport of logs flume1784 log-rollinga1792 drive1835 river-driving1843 river drive1845 sluice-way1851 sacking1860 timber drivea1861 skidding1877 log-running1878 skid road1880 rigging1897 swamping1902 log-drivea1904 high lead1905 high-lining1919 1878 Lumberman's Gaz. 6 Apr. The Green Bay Advocate of March 28 says that log-running is commencing all around. 1901 S. E. White Westerners xxi. 199 In the log running Michail Lafond was the man always called upon to skim over the bobbing logs. log-scale n. (see quot. 1905). ΚΠ 1877 Michigan Rep. 36 168 The scale of the manufactured lumber exceeded the log scale. 1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 42 Log scale, the contents of a log, or of a number of logs considered collectively. log sheet n. a logbook in which the driver of a commercial motor vehicle enters particulars of his working and rest hours. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport of goods in a vehicle > [noun] > by motor lorry > record kept of journey log1913 logbook1958 log sheet1958 1958 Listener 14 Aug. 226/2 The lights come on in the cabs [of the lorries], while the drivers make out their log sheets. 1959 E. 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.]. 1964 Times 11 Feb. 11/6 The practice of keeping duplicate sets of log sheets,..is so common that it is hardly remarked upon. log-ship n. also log-chip (see quot.). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > device to ascertain ship's speed through water > line of > piece of wood at end chip1824 log-ship1841 log-chip1846 1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. 114 Log, a line with a piece of board called the log-ship, attached to it. 1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. at Log-line A piece of board called the Log-ship or Log-chip. c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 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. log-slate n. a double slate used instead of the log-board n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > ship's papers > [noun] > logbook > board or slate for taking notes log-board1669 rough log1819 log-slate1834 1834 Knickerbocker 3 83 Adding on the log-slate another ‘ditto’ to the long column of them. 1841 R. H. Dana 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. log-work n. (a) the arrangement of logs in the walls of a house or other building; (b) the keeping of the log or logbook (sense 7). ΚΠ 1721 J. Baxter in New-Eng. Historical & Geneal. Reg. (1867) XXI. 57 All Hands went briskly to work, to finish ye log-work in ye Lower Block-house. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 3 Tedious Accounts of their Log-work, how many Leagues they sail'd every Day; where they had the Winds [etc.]. 1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 111 The chimney is..commonly of lath or split sticks, laid up like log-work and plastered with mud. Draft additions 1997 Australian. A list or summary of claims for a wage increase, or other employee benefits. Frequently more fully, log of claims. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > demand for higher wages > list of claims log1911 1911 Commonwealth Arbitration Rep. 5 181 The claims of the employees have been framed into a log of wages and conditions. 1925 Round Table June 587 Delay on the part of various Government departments of Western Australia in dealing with a log lodged by such [harbour] employees. 1948 G. 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. 1969 Age (Melbourne) 24 May 3/2 Negotiations over the log of claims. 1984 Austral. 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. Draft additions 1993 log flume n. (a) U.S. = flume n. 3a; (b) = flume n. Additions b. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places for working with specific materials > place for working with wood > [noun] > channel for transporting logs or timber log flume1963 society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > fairground or amusement park > [noun] > fairground ride > other rides wiggle-waggle1825 helter-skelter lighthouse1906 cakewalk1908 flip-flap1908 ghost train1931 tunnel of love1954 log flume1963 razzle1969 flume1978 1963 Brit. 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. 1972 New Society 16 Nov. 395/2 The 40-acre fantasy of big dipper rides, log flumes and big wheels. 1983 Proc. 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. 1989 Daily Tel. 4 Feb. (Colour Suppl.) p. v/2 If you're going to use the log flume [at Blackpool], be warned: you really will get wet. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2022). logn.2 A Hebrew measure for liquids; the twelfth part of a hin; = about three quarters of a pint. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > liquid measure of capacity > specific units of liquid measure > Hebrew units hin1382 batha1398 log1530 bate1548 1530 Bible (Tyndale) Lev. xiv. f. xxiiiiv And lett the preast take..the logge [L. sextarium, a1382 Wycliffite, E.V. sextarie; 1611 King James log] of oyle. 1755 in S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. ; and in mod. Dicts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). logn.3adj. A. n.3 = logarithm n.See the last paragraph of the note to logarithm n.; (log is no longer confined to a position before a number). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > logarithm > [adjective] logarithmetical1621 loga1630 logarithmal1630 logarithmical1631 logarithmic1698 logarithmetic1721 the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > logarithm > [noun] logarithm1616 logarism1630 log1858 a1630 H. Briggs Logarithm. Arithm. (1631) i. 2 The Log. of proper fractions is Defective. 1785 C. Hutton Math. Tables 125 To find the Log. of 2. 1805 J. W. Norie Epitome Pract. Navigation Expl. Tables p. xv Thus the log. of 295 is 2·469822. 1858 I. Todhunter Algebra for Schools 308 Given log 2 find log ·0025. 1869 J. H. Smith Elem. Algebra 331 Log mn = x + y. 1890 G. F. Matthews Man. Logarithms 18 How many positive integers are there whose logs. to the base 3 have 6 for a characteristic? 1900 A. C. Johnson How to find Time at Sea (4) Pref. The Tables..are..contracted so that all the logs requisite for working a ‘chronometer’ are displayed at one view. 1960 F. 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. 1971 Nature 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. B. adj. = logarithmic adj. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > curve > [noun] > logarithmic logarithmic curve (or line)1698 logistic1728 logarithmic1753 log1785 logistic line- 1785 C. Hutton Math. Tables 150 To find the log. sine of 1° [etc.]. 1785 C. Hutton Math. Tables 150 To find the log. tang. of 2° [etc.]. 1805 J. W. Norie Epitome Pract. Navigation Expl. Tables p. xv The log. sine of 3 points is 9·744739. 1889 W. M. Walters Ocean Tramp (advt.) The Table of Log Sines, Tangents, &c., has been considerably augmented and simplified. 1890 G. F. Matthews Man. Logarithms 49 The Logarithm of the sine of A is called the logarithmic sine of A and written log sin A. 1967 Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. 5 134 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. 1974 Daily 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. Compounds Special combinations. log log n. (a) n. the logarithm of the logarithm (of a number); also attributive, indicating or involving such quantities; (b) adj. (usually hyphenated), applied to a graph or to graph paper having a logarithmic scale along both axes. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > logarithm > [noun] > types of hyperbolic logarithm1704 logistic logarithms1795 log log1910 lod score1977 the world > relative properties > number > graph or diagram > [noun] > graph > showing specific relationship characteristic1881 characteristic curve1881 time curve1883 luminosity curve1886 hysteresis curve1890 hysteresis loop1892 time-distance1892 solidus1901 power curve1908 log log1910 Russell diagram1922 creep curve1931 power curve1932 Hertzsprung–Russell diagram1939 Petersen graph1947 utility curve1948 tournament graph1959 offset1987 1910 Encycl. 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. 1933 S. Dawson Introd. Computation of Statistics i. 28 Log.-log. paper, in which both sets of values are represented by lines proportional to their logarithms. 1957 M. G. Kendall & W. R. Buckland Dict. Statist. Terms 169 Loglog transformation, the transformation of a probability P..according to the formula Y = loge (-loge P). 1962 Lancet 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. 1966 D. 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. log-normal adj. Statistics such that the logarithm of the variate is distributed according to a normal distribution. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [adjective] > relating to distribution > normal > of logarithm of variate log-normal1945 1945 J. 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. 1945 J. H. Gaddum in Nature 20 Oct. 465/1 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. 1951 Biometrika 38 434 It is assumed that the population distribution of abundance is log-normal. 1971 J. 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. log-normally adv. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [adverb] > in accordance with a particular distribution normally1885 binomially1889 modally1936 log-normally1945 1945 J. H. Gaddum in Nature 20 Oct. 465/1 The size of the particles of silver in a photographic emulsion were lognormally distributed. 1951 Biometrika 38 427 (heading) The expected frequencies in a sample of an animal population in which the abundances of species are log-normally distributed. 1967 Proc. 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. log phase n. Biology = logarithmic phase at logarithmic adj. a. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > period > [noun] logarithmic phase1914 prothrombin time1927 log phase1938 turnover time1943 survival time1947 pulse1960 scotophase1962 1938 H. 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. 1959 F. S. Stewart Bigger's Handbk. Bacteriol. (ed. 7) i. 10 The log phase is of relatively short duration, lasting at most for some hours. 1974 Nature 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. log table n. a table of logarithms; usually plural. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical instruments > [noun] > table compute manual1483 tariff1591 sexagenary table1594 table of multiplication1594 long measure1623 scale of numbers1630 Rudolphine Tables1635 multiplication table1657 chiliad1675 sexagesimal table1685 nautical card1700 pence table1706 numeration tablea1743 tablebook1755 ready reckoner1757 calculator1784 tables1828 times table1902 log tablec1935 c1935 J. 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’. 1962 R. B. Fuller Epic Poem on Industrialization xx. 143 Napier developed between 1614–1620 His logarithms, his complete log tables. 1969 D. C. Hague Managerial Econ. vi. 132 Given time, patience and log tables, we could draw up a table like Table 7 for ourselves. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022). logv.1 1. transitive. Thesaurus » Categories » Thesaurus » Categories » b. To cut (timber) into logs. c. To remove the logs or trees from (an area). Also const. off, over, up. Chiefly North American. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [verb (transitive)] > fell an area log1699 lumber1851 1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. ii. iii. 80 A Tree..so thick, that after it is log'd, it remains still too great a Burthen for one Man. 1717 in 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. 1818 L. D. Clark in Firelands Pioneer (1920) XXI. 2322 He and Lines went logging of the land to sow with wheat. 1829 J. MacTaggart Three Years in 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. 1829 in E. C. Guillet Valley of Trent (1957) 355 After this we logged up and cleared three acres. 1833 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 22 June 167/2 He..acquaints his neighbours around him, according to the extent of the land he has to log. 1836 C. P. Traill Backwoods of Canada 101 After the trees have been chopped, cut into lengths, drawn together, or logged, as we call it. 1839 A. Langton Jrnl. in Gentlewoman Upper Canada (1950) 114 Six or seven acres were logged up during the day. a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) i. 20 Only a little spruce and hemlock beside had been logged here. 1902 S. E. White Blazed Trail ii. 5 We own, however, five million on the Cass Branch which we would like to log on contract. 1904 S. E. White Blazed Trail Stories iii. 46 Suppose you log a knoll which..must grow at least a half million. 1919 B. W. Sinclair Burned Bridges 302 As soon as the land is logged off it is open for soldier entry. 1921 H. 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. 1948 Milwaukee (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. 1959 A. H. McLintock Descr. Atlas N.Z. 45 Once provisional State forest was logged over for timber it was then released for agricultural development. 1963 E. C. Guillet Pioneer Farmer I. 318 Some men were known to log several acres a year entirely alone—without even oxen. d. To clear up or cut over (a certain area) in logging. ΚΠ 1843 Yale Lit. Mag. 8 332 Squatters, eh! I reckon I'm as reg'lar a settler as ever logged up a clearin. 1843 Yale Literary Mag. 8 406 Now I fear there are multitudes of people in the land..whose first idea when coming to the premises would be,..‘what a nation sight of bother it would be to log up a clearing in these parts. e. to log up (see quots. 1889, 1905). So logging-up n. New Zealand colloquial. ΚΠ 1889 Colonia 1 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. 1891 R. 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. 1905 J. 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. 1908 B. E. Baughan Shingle-short 84 [Trees] logged up for burning. 2. To lay out (a road) with a layer of logs. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > paving and road-building > pave or build roads [verb (transitive)] > make road with (split) logs corduroy1862 log1893 1893 Scribner's Mag. June 706/1 Road-makers log out the road to its proper width. 3. ΚΠ 1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle IV. xciv. 2 Several feet of under-water logging in her hold. b. intransitive. To lie like a log. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of lying down or reclining > lie down or recline [verb (intransitive)] > like a log log1810 1810 A. Wilson Foresters in Port Folio III. 180 By slow degrees the sinking breezes die, And on the smooth still flood we logging lie. 1864 T. Woolner My Beautiful Lady (ed. 2) 6 The logging crocodiles' Outrageous bulk. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > organize military affairs [verb (transitive)] > punish log1816 buck1865 crucify1940 society > authority > punishment > other types of punishment > [verb (transitive)] > punish by the log log1816 1816 C. James New Mil. Dict. (ed. 4) (at cited word) To Log..is a punishment which is inflicted in some dragoon or hussar regiments for indisciplined and disorderly conduct. 1839 C. 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. Originally Nautical. To enter (esp. the distance run by a ship) in a log or logbook; hence gen., to record. Also with down, up. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > [verb (intransitive)] log1823 society > communication > record > [verb (transitive)] record1340 minda1382 remembera1382 to put in remembrancea1393 denotate1599 denote1612 chronologizec1616 log1823 society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (transitive)] > work out a course > enter distance run in log log1880 1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers II. xv. 221 I've logged many a hard thing against your name. 1852 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 72 94 He has just logged down, in a plain manner, what he noticed on the road. 1880 N. H. Bishop Four Months in Sneak-box 106 I..went into camp behind an island, logging with pleasure my day's run at sixty-seven miles. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 Oct. 8 The weather was logged at midnight, ‘Light, clear, passing showers’. 1924 J. 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. 1966 M. Rubin & C. E. Haller Communication Switching Syst. viii. 294 Every message which is accepted into the system is logged on a storage device. 1969 G. M. Bennison & A. E. Wright Geol. Hist. Brit. Isles i. 18 One further parameter of particular importance in logging bore-hole strata is the measurement of thermal conductivity. 1974 Physics Bull. Jan. 30/2 Up to now data from brake tests have been logged using ultraviolet recorders or human observers. 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 transferred, of a machine and the time spent in operation. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (transitive)] > traverse a distance measured by log log1883 society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (transitive)] > traverse a distance measured by log > travel at (a certain speed) log1928 society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > fly an aircraft [verb (transitive)] > attain specific time or distance log1955 1883 E. F. Knight Cruise of ‘Falcon’ I. 52 This day we logged 160 miles. 1892 Daily Tel. 29 Dec. 5/1 In one day she hardly logged as much as a hundred knotts. 1928 Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 116/2 The liner was logging a steady seventeen knots. 1955 Times 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. 1956 IRE Trans. Electronic Computers 5 138/2 To date 670 hours of operation have been logged on this unit since debugging. 1966 Listener 4 Aug. 179/2 The Graf Zeppelin..was the first aircraft to log over a million miles. 1972 Lebende Sprachen 17 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 logbook, with a penalty attached. Hence, to fine. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > fine > [verb (transitive)] mulct?a1475 gersum1483 unlaw1508 finea1513 check1526 to be put to one's fine1542 punish1552 forfeitc1592 tinsel1609 sconce1641 physic1821 to fix (a person) with liability1833 log1889 society > communication > record > written record > record in writing [verb (transitive)] > enter on record writeOE setc1175 embreve?c1225 enrolc1350 enter1389 rollc1400 enact1467 act1475 enchroniclea1513 ascribe1532 re-enter1535 to put down1574 register1597 inscroll1600 emologea1639 spread1823 to book in1860 to sign on1879 log1889 sign1894 to sign out1916 to sign in1924 1889 Times 10 Sept. 10/5 The understanding..was that the penalties for logging should not be enforced. 1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 30 Aug. 2/1 Taken before the captain on the bridge and ‘logged’ to the extent of from five to twenty shillings. 1892 Labour Comm. Gloss. Logging offences, the entering..in the ‘official log’ of British vessels of offences committed by members of the crew. 1899 F. T. Bullen Log of Sea-waif 280 I'll log ye to-morrow. d. to log in or 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 out (intr.), to terminate one's on-line access to a computer; also to log (a person) off, to log off (a system). So log-out n. the action or an act of logging out, etc. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > network > [verb (intransitive)] > connect to log in or on1963 to sign into ——1971 to dial in1972 to dial into ——1972 to sign in1973 society > computing and information technology > network > [verb (transitive)] > connect to log in or on1963 to sign on1970 society > computing and information technology > network > [noun] > connect > disconnect log-out1963 society > computing and information technology > network > [verb (intransitive)] > connect > disconnect to log off or out1963 to sign out1995 society > computing and information technology > network > [verb (transitive)] > connect > disconnect to log off or out1963 to sign off1999 1963 Compatible Time-sharing Syst. (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…The extension will be maintained when the user issues logout. When he next logs in, he should relieve the excess..by adequate deletions. 1965 IEEE Spectrum 2 59/1 An automatic logout of the author's problem. 1965 IEEE Spectrum 2 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. 1968 M. V. Wilkes Time-sharing Computer Syst. ii. 7 The user begins a session by logging in, that is he types the command LOGIN, followed by his problem number and name. 1968 M. V. Wilkes Time-sharing Computer Syst. ii. 7 The user is logged in and the date and time are printed. 1968 M. V. Wilkes Time-sharing Computer Syst. 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. 1977 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) 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. 1978 Bell Syst. Techn. Jrnl. 57 1924 A user may log out simply by typing the end-of-file sequence to the shell. 1978 Bell Syst. Techn. Jrnl. 57 1925 A user has successfully logged in by supplying a name and password. 1983 Pop. 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. 1984 Today in Gainesville (Florida) Mar. 13/2 Almost everywhere, it seems, American hackers (fanatics) are ‘logging on’ to these computerized repositories. 1985 Byte Jan. 306/2 A person..upon exiting from the program is logged off the MP/M system. 1985 Computerworld 29 Sept. 51/1 Allowing people to log on and leave the terminal area without logging off the system. ΚΠ 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue 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. Australian Mining. to log up: To make a log support for the windlass. ΚΠ 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right I. v. 132 We..had logged up and made a start with another shaft. 8. Tailoring. To enter (at a certain price) on a log. ΚΠ 1913 J. Carter in Oxf. Mag. 22 May 360/1 A particular garment logged at, say, a total price of 15s. 6d..may be given out to a workman at 10s. 6d or even less. Draft additions June 2017 transitive (usually in passive). To attach a block of wood to the neck of (a dog) as a restraint on its movement. Also figurative. historical in later use.In Ireland such restraint was required by law for dogs in certain situations, such as public places, in the 18th and 19th centuries. ΚΠ 1788 Freemans Jrnl. 4 Nov. 3/3 The melancholy accident..where a young boy..received a bite from a mad dog..[calls for] a strict execution of the law, which directs that those who keep dogs should have them logged. 1824 Dublin Jrnl. 21 May Several Dogs have been destroyed in the vicinity of Dublin... The owners of dogs should keep them securely logged during the day. 1852 F. B. Head Fortnight in Ireland i. 207 An English dog runs about unfettered, but taxed, and an Irish dog lives untaxed, but logged. 1912 M. C. Logue Let. 24 Mar. in Seanchas Ardmhacha 18 167 We do not want Catholics logged and muzzled as if they were furious dogs. 1975 Cork Examiner 10 Apr. 5/8 It was Knapp [sc. Mayor of Cork in 1829] who made the citizens have their dogs logged or muzzled, although the logs soon became an ornament only. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2022). logv.2 dialect. a. transitive. To rock, move to and fro. ΚΠ 1808 R. Polwhele Cornish-Eng. Vocab. 45 (note) This enormous mass, from its peculiarity of position, may be easily logged to and fro. b. intransitive. To oscillate. ΚΠ 1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 35/1 Log, to oscillate. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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