Word Finder - logs

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The trunk of a dead tree, cleared of branches.

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They walked across the stream on a fallen log.

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Any bulky piece as cut from the above, used as timber, fuel etc.

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A unit of length equivalent to 16 feet, used for measuring timber, especially the trunk of a tree.

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Anything shaped like a log; a cylinder.

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A floating device, usually of wood, used in navigation to estimate the speed of a vessel through water.

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A blockhead; a very stupid person.

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A heavy longboard.

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A rolled cake with filling.

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A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.

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A piece of feces.

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A penis.

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To cut trees into logs.

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To cut down (trees).

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To cut down trees in an area, harvesting and transporting the logs as wood.

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A logbook, or journal of a vessel (or aircraft)'s progress

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A chronological record of actions, performances, computer/network usage, etc.

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Specifically, an append-only sequence of records written to file.

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To make, to add an entry (or more) in a log or logbook.

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to log the miles travelled by a ship

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To travel (a distance) as shown in a logbook

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To travel at a specified speed, as ascertained by chip log.

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To move to and fro; to rock.

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A Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 1/3 liter).

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Logarithm.

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To multiply two numbers, add their logs.

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A difference of one in the logarithm, usually in base 10.

Its front doors were propped open by large logs.

Several. I had our logs checked like you said.

The Little Kanawha, which has also been improved, serves chiefly for the transportation of logs which are floated down to the Ohio.

Sawdust, slabs, stumps and large quantities of logs are wasted.

Oh, he got worms out of rotten logs since the ground froze, and so he caught them.

The latter raises the moss and bark gently with his knife in search of insects; the former lays open logs to their core with his axe, and moss and bark fly far and wide.

She itched to have her micro again, to look at the logs and hack into whatever she could to find the answers.

The two principal American taffrail logs are the Negus and Bliss (Messrs Norie and Wilson).

All patent logs have errors, the amounts of which should be ascertained by shore observations when passing a well surveyed coast in tideless waters on a calm day.

The planks were of wood, often beech, a few inches wide, and were fastened down, end to end, on logs of wood, or " sleepers," placed crosswise at intervals of two or three feet.

It affords facilities for the transport of logs by means of booms above Minneapolis, and is navigable below St Paul; being half a mile broad where it reaches the border of the state at Hastings.

During this century the first sumptuary edict ordered that the dwellings of all high officials and opulent civilians should have tiled roofs and be colored red, the latter injunction being evidently intended to stop the use of logs carrying their bark.

In recent times, especially since the rapid increase in the study of the exact sciences during the 19th century, observations at sea with accurate instruments have become common, and the ships' logs of to-day are provided with headings for entering daily observations of the phenomena of the seasurface.

The Hydrographic Office of the United States had collected 3800 meteorological logs with 3,200,000 entries before 1888; but since that time the logs have contained only one observation daily (at Greenwich noon) and of these 2,380.000 entries had been received by 1904.

The yearly out-turn is estimated at over 20,000 logs, and forest officers have estimated that an annual out-turn of 9000 logs might be kept up without injury to the forests.

In the archives of the French Marine in Paris there were 3300 complete logs with 830,000 entries and II, 000 abstract logs from men-of-war.

While the sailors' logs supply the greater part of the scientific evidence available for the study of the surface phenomena of the ocean, they have been supplemented by the records of numerous scientific expeditions and latterly by publications embodying systematic observations on a permanent basis.

The north-west coast Indians hoisted the logs that formed the plates of their house frames into position with skids and parbuckles of rope.

The number of teak logs brought out via the Salween and Menam Chao Phaya rivers average 160,000 annually, Siam being thus the largest teak-producing country of the world.

Their life is still in many respects very primitive; their houses are generally built of logs, their clothes are often of homespun, Indian corn and ham form a large part of their diet, and their means of transportation are the saddle-horse and sleds and wheeled carts drawn by oxen or mules.

Formerly, the logs were shipped as square timber, but now almost always in the form of deals, planks or laths; such square timber as is still shipped goes almost entirely to Great Britain.

Numerous smaller canals bring Ottawa into connexion with Lake Champlain and the Hudson river via Montreal; by this route the logs and sawn lumber of Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick find their destination.

Certain provinces prohibit the exportation of logs to the United States, in order to promote the growth of saw-mills and manufactures of wooden-ware within the country, and the latter have of late years developed with great rapidity.

The Black Forest produces excellent timber, which is partly sawn in the valleys and partly exported down the Rhine in logs.

The only drawback to these good qualities is a certain liability to warp and bend, unless very carefully seasoned; for this purpose it is recommended to be left floating in water for a year after felling, and then allowed some months to dry slowly and completely before sawing up the logs; barking the trunk in winter while the tree is standing, and leaving it in that state till the next year, has been often advised with the larch as with other timber, but the practical inconveniences of the plan have prevented its adoption on any large scale.

The prosperity of Drammen depends mainly on the timber trade; and saw-milling is an active industry, the logs being floated down the river from the upland forests.

They then look like floating logs; and thus they float or gently approach their prey, which consists of anything they can overpower.

As soon as possible after felling, logs by sawing into scantling sizes, for if the log is left to dry or season, it is liable on shrinking to split.

The sal tree yields the most important timber; the finest logs are cut in the Khairagarh jungles and floated down the Gogra to Bahramghat, where they are sawn.

Nearly fifty skeletons were discovered, mostly lying upon charred logs, surrounded with cinerary urns filled with partially burned bones.

To enlarge the area, or raise the surface-level where that was necessary, layers of logs, brushwood, heather and ferns were piled on the shallow, and consolidated with gravel and stones.

Occasionally a bridge of logs, or a causeway of stones, formed a communication with the shore, but often the only means of getting to and from the island was by canoes hollowed out of a single tree.

Remains of huts of logs, or of wattled work, are often found within the enclosure.

The substructure was built up from the bottom of the loch, partly of brushwood but chiefly of logs and trunks of trees with the branches lopped off, placed in layers, each disposed transversely or obliquely across the one below it.

From their common feature of a substructure of brushwood and logs built up from the bottom, the crannogs have been classed as fascine-dwellings, to distinguish them from the typical piledwellings of the earlier periods in Switzerland, whose platforms are supported by piles driven into the bed of the lake.

Petersburg and Richmond on the James are connected with regular steamship lines with Norfolk, Richmond's water trade being chiefly in coal, oil, logs and fertilizer.

Traffic through these canals consists chiefly of forest products, logs, lumber and shingles.

Tar is prepared largely from P. sylvestris; it is chiefly obtained from the roots, which, mingled with a few logs, are arranged in a conical or funnel-shaped hollow made on the steep side of a hill or bank; after filling up, the whole is covered with turf and fired at the top, when the tar exudes slowly and runs into aniron vessel placed below, from the spout of which it is conveyed into barrels.

Logs and clumsy floats of bark and grass enabled them to cross water under favourable circumstances.

Apart from the Tartarides, the Pedipalpi are large or medium-sized Arachnida, nocturnal in habits and spending the day under stones, logs of wood or loosened bark.

There are also flour mills, tanneries (United States Leather Co.), patent medicine, furniture, coffin woodenware and wagon factories, knitting and spinning mills, planing mills, and sash, door and blind factories - the lumber being obtained from logs floated down the river and by rail.

He laboured assiduously to obtain observations as to the winds and currents by distributing to captains of vessels specially prepared log-books; and in the course of nine years he had collected a sufficient number of logs to make two hundred manuscript volumes, each with about two thousand five hundred days' observations.

A small cluster of flames was struggling to stay alive in a pile of logs.

He invited us to sit down on comfortable armchairs placed around a fire on which a kettle sat between two logs.

At Cost Logs for wood-burner â first basket free thereafter purchase locally.

Print out a copy to read, while you design logs and alerts to detect network bottlenecks.

They spend long periods basking on the ground, on logs, on bramble leaves, or on dead bracken.

We were told of the way corpses in concentration camps were layered up with logs, then the whole lot set alight.

Web logs - A relatively new feature like an online diary.

In Canadian forestry high quality red alder logs are said to be approximately equal in value to that of a Douglas fir log.