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7 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Log \Log\, n. [Heb. l[=o]g.] A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing 2.37 gills. --W. H. Ward. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Log \Log\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Logged}; p. pr & vb n. {Logging}.] (Naut.), To enter in a ship's log book; as to log the miles run. --J. F. Cooper. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Log \Log\, v. i. 1. To engage in the business of cutting or transporting logs for timber; to get out logs. [U.S.] 2. To move to and fro; to rock. [Obs.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Log \Log\, n. [Icel. l[=a]g a felled tree, log akin to E. lie. See {Lie} to lie prostrate.] 1. A bulky piece of wood which has not been shaped by hewing or sawing. 2. [Prob. the same word as in sense 1; cf LG log lock, Dan. log Sw logg.] (Naut.) An apparatus for measuring the rate of a ship's motion through the water. Note: The common log consists of the log-chip, or logship, often exclusively called the log and the log line the former being commonly a thin wooden quadrant of five or six inches radius, loaded with lead on the arc to make it float with the point up It is attached to the log line by cords from each corner. This line is divided into equal spaces, called knots, each bearing the same proportion to a mile that half a minute does to an hour. The line is wound on a reel which is so held as to let it run off freely. When the log is thrown, the log-chip is kept by the water from being drawn forward, and the speed of the ship is shown by the number of knots run out in half a minute. There are improved logs, consisting of a piece of mechanism which being towed astern, shows the distance actually gone through by the ship, by means of the revolutions of a fly, which are registered on a dial plate. 3. Hence: The record of the rate of ship's speed or of her daily progress; also the full nautical record of a ship's cruise or voyage; a log slate; a log book. 4. A record and tabulated statement of the work done by an engine, as of a steamship, of the coal consumed, and of other items relating to the performance of machinery during a given time. 5. (Mining) A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave. {Log board} (Naut.), a board consisting of two parts shutting together like a book, with columns in which are entered the direction of the wind, course of the ship, etc., during each hour of the day and night. These entries are transferred to the log book. A folding slate is now used instead. {Log book}, or {Logbook} (Naut.), a book in which is entered the daily progress of a ship at sea, as indicated by the log with notes on the weather and incidents of the voyage; the contents of the log board. {Log cabin}, {Log house}, a cabin or house made of logs. {Log canoe}, a canoe made by shaping and hollowing out a single log From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: log adj : (of roads) made of logs laid down crosswise; "a corduroy road" [syn: {corduroy(a)}, {log(a)}] n 1: a segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches 2: large log at the back of a hearth fire [syn: {backlog}] 3: the exponent required to produce a given number [syn: {logarithm}] 4: a written record of the transmissions by a radio station 5: a written record of events on a voyage (of a ship or plane) 6: a float that trails from a ship by a knotted line in order to measure the ship's speed through the water v 1: enter into a log as on ships and planes 2: cut lumber, as in woods and forests [syn: {lumber}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: {log} ["{log}: A Logic Programming Language with Finite Sets", A Dovier et al Proc 8th Intl Conf Logic Prog, June 1991, pp.111-124]. From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Log the smallest measure for liquids used by the Hebrews (Lev. 14:10, 12, 15, 21, 24), called in the Vulgate sextarius. It is the Hebrew unit of measure of capacity, and is equal to the contents of six ordinary hen's eggs=the twelfth part of a him or nearly a pint.
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