log
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɒɡ/
ipa: /lɔɡ/
ipa: /lɑɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
rhymes: -ɔːɡ
Forms: form: logs
form: logg
form: logge
Etymology: From Middle English logge, logg (first recorded in Anglo-Latin as loggum), of uncertain origin, but probably from Old Norse lóg, lág (“felled tree, log”), derived from Old Norse liggja (“to lie”). If so, then cognate with Norwegian låg (“fallen tree”), Dutch loog (“wood, timber, lumber”).
Alternatively, directly from Norwegian låg (“fallen tree”), which could have been borrowed through the Norwegian timber trade. However the Old Norse/Middle Norwegian vowel is long while Middle English vowel is short.
Senses: examples: text: They walked across the stream on a fallen log.
glosses: The trunk of a dead tree, cleared of branches.
examples: text: Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, "Let me take the speck out of your eye," and behold, the log is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
ref: 1995, New American Standard Bible: Matthew 7, 3 - 5:
glosses: Any bulky piece as cut from the above, used as timber, fuel etc.
glosses: A unit of length equivalent to 16 feet, used for measuring timber, especially the trunk of a tree.
examples: text: […] it was a thing of sinuous durability, wound around the spirit like a tapeworm around a log of shit.
ref: 1999, Glen Duncan, Hope:
text: Dip both sides in the sauce on the plate and then arrange a log of cheese filling down the middle of the tortilla.
ref: 2011, Edward Espe Brown, The Complete Tassajara Cookbook:
glosses: Anything shaped like a log; a cylinder.
examples: text: 1659, Navigation by the Mariners Plain Scale New Plain'd, by John Collins
Every Noon the Master and his Mates take the reckoning off the Log-board, and double the Knots run, and then divide the Product, which is the number of Miles run by three, the quotient is the Leagues run since the former Noon, and according to custom the Log is thrown every two hours, and I never knew the course nearer expressed on the Log-board, then to half a point of the Compass.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A floating device, usually of wood, used in navigation to estimate the speed of a vessel through water.
glosses: A blockhead; a very stupid person.
examples: text: 1999, Neal Miyake https://web.archive.org/web/20060530122555/http://www.iav.com/~sponge/sesh/new2/sesh213.htm
I know he hadn’t surfed on a log much in his childhood
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: A heavy longboard.
glosses: A rolled cake with filling.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.
glosses: A piece of feces.
glosses: A penis.
Derived terms: ants on a log
as easy as rolling off a log
backlog
Christmas log
drop a log
Dutchman's log
easy as falling off a log
easy as rolling off a log
firelog
flog the log
footlog
hand log
heave the log
lick log
like a bump on a log
like falling off a log
like rolling off a log
logboard
log boat
logboat
log book
log-burner
log burner
log cabin
log car
log chip
log dog
log drive
log flume
logger
logget
loggish
log-glass
loggy
loghouse
log jam
logjam
loglet
loglike
logmaker
logman
logperch
log reel
log ride
logrolling
logrunner
log scaler
log splitter
log washer
logway
logwood
moorlog
murder log
nurse log
patent log
putlog
sawlog
sleep like a log
stoplog