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Definition of Log

Log

A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing 2.37 gills.

A bulky piece of wood which has not been shaped by hewing or sawing.

An apparatus for measuring the rate of a ship's motion through the water.

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.

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.

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

To enter in a ship's log book; as, to log the miles run.

To engage in the business of cutting or transporting logs for timber; to get out logs.

To move to and fro; to rock.

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Log Quotations

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.
Ellen DeGeneres

I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
Don Van Vliet

I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.
Linda McCartney

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
James A. Garfield

So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
Laura Ingalls Wilder

I keep lists of names of people that I have met, a list of things to do day by day as well as a log of how my time is consumed throughout the day. It's a very important part of my personal discipline.
Bob Graham

I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats.
Joe Davis

Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!
Jonathan Shapiro

You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.
Nicolas Malebranche

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