1. Naut. A book in which the particulars of a ship’s voyage (including her rate of progress as indicated by the log) are entered daily from the log-board. Hence transf. and fig., a journal of travel.
a. 1679. Sir J. Moore, Syst. Math. (1681), I. 271. A Book called a Traverse Book or Log Book.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., Log-book, at sea, a book ruled and columned like the log-board.
1779. Boswell, Lett. to Johnson, 7 Nov. My Chester journal … is truly a log-book of felicity.
1821. Byron, Diary, Wks. (1846), 677/1. This additional page of life’s log-book.
1889. Clark Russell, Marooned (1890), 146. The mate’s log-book was upon the table.
2. Tailoring = LOG sb. 7.
1869. Senior, trans. Comte de Paris’ Trades’ Unions, 169. It was agreed that thenceforth payment should be by piecework, according to a tariff called the log-book.
3. A kind of journal of proceedings which the master of a public elementary school is required to keep.
1872. in Rice-Wiggin & Graves, Elem. Sch. Manager (1879), 220. Occasional deviations from the table … should be noted by the teacher in the log-book.
1882. Education Code, 4. The log-book … must be kept by the principal teacher, who is required to enter in it from time to time such events as the introduction of new books [etc.].
