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/lˈɔgɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Logging n. The business of felling trees, cutting them into logs, and transporting the logs to sawmills or to market.

verb

Log v. t. (past & past part. logged; pres. part. logging)

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

To record any event in a logbook, especially an event relating to the operation of a machine or device.

Log v. i.

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

To move to and fro; to rock. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Logging" Quotes from Famous Books

... Physicians in New York, hearing of the case of Trudeau, began to send patients now and then to try the climate at Saranac, and in that small way the health resort, now so extensive, had its beginning. Stevenson went there in the early days of the sanatorium, when the place was a mere little logging village, where logs were cut and floated ...

— The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson • Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez

... of Maine, it is customary for men of different logging camps to appoint days for helping each other in rolling the logs to the river after they are felled and trimmed, this rolling being about the hardest work incident to the business. Thus the men of three or four different ...

— Nature and Human Nature • Thomas Chandler Haliburton

... most finely wrought pictures or refined pathos and sentiment, can abruptly take up its abode in some remote Maine timber region and pour out such a wild, virile chantey of the woods and the river that we seem to glimpse the singer as the huskiest of a tangle-bearded, fight-scarred, loud-shouting logging crew sprawling about ...

— Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 • Howard Phillips Lovecraft

... overboard until we took it with us. Well, this bucket had a name painted on it; and, after we had leisure for the thing, I got Guinea, who has a natural turn at tattooing, to rub it into my arm in gunpowder, as the handiest way of logging these small particulars. Your Honour shall see what the black has ...

— The Red Rover • James Fenimore Cooper

... were logging in the underbrush near by with a long chain and yoke of oxen, but the geologist was so excited that he did not see them till the sound of his eager hammer had brought them to his side. They took him up to the frame house ...

— Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich • Stephen Leacock

... brought disturbed Captain Boggs, who commanded the garrison, as a number of men were away on a logging expedition up the river, and were not expected to raft down to ...

— Betty Zane • Zane Grey

... not a very great deal that could be milled into high-grade paper pulp; and it's getting rapidly worked out in most other countries. Then, as a rule, it's mixed up with firs, cedars and cypresses; and that means the cutting of logging roads to each cluster of milling trees. There's another point—a good deal of the spruce lies back from water or a railroad, and in some cases it would be costly to bring in a milling plant or to pack ...

— Vane of the Timberlands • Harold Bindloss