[f. LOG sb.1]
1. trans. † a. To bring (a tree) to the condition of a log; to deprive of branches (obs.). b. To cut (timber) into logs.
1699. Dampier, Voy., II. II. 80. A Tree … so thick that after it is log’d it remains still too great a Burthen for one Man.
1836. Backwoods of Canada, 101. After the trees have been chopped, cut into lengths, drawn together, or logged, as we call it.
1848. Thoreau, Maine W. (1894), 26. Only a little spruce and hemlock beside had been logged here.
absol. 1830. Galt, Lawrie T., III. ii. (1849), 87. The settlers were busy logging and burning.
1848. Thoreau, Maine W. (1894), 97. We turned our backs on Chesuncook, which McCauslin had formerly logged on.
1878. Michigan Rep., XXXVII. 408. He was logging on the … Manistee River.
2. To lay out (a road) with a layer of logs.
1893. A. Hill, in Scribner’s Mag., June, 706/1. Road-makers … log out the road to its proper width.
3. † a. trans. Of water: To lie in (a ship) so as to reduce it to the condition of a log; in quot. absol.
1751. Smollett, Per. Pic. (1779), IV. lxxxvi. 10. Several feet of under-water logging in her hold.
b. intr. To lie like a log.
a. 1813. A. Wilson, Foresters, Poet. Wks. (1846), 269. By slow degrees the sinking breezes die, And on the smooth still flood we logging lie.
1864. [see LOGGING ppl. a.1].
† 4. Mil. To indict on (a soldier) the punishment of the log (see LOG sb.1 2 b). Obs.
1816. C. James, Milit. Dict. (ed. 4), s.v., To Log … is a punishment which is inflicted in some dragoon or hussar regiments for indisciplined and disorderly conduct.
5. Naut. To enter (esp. the distance run by a ship) in a log or log-book; hence gen., to record. Also with down, up.
1823. J. F. Cooper, Pioneers, xxxiv. (1869), 149/2. I’ve logged many a hard thing against your name.
1852. Blackw. Mag., LXXII. 94. He has just logged down, in a plain manner, what he noticed on the road.
1880. N. H. Bishop, 4 Months in Sneak-Box, 106. I … went into camp behind an island, logging with pleasure my day’s run at sixty-seven miles.
1884. Pall Mall Gaz., 6 Oct., 8. The weather was logged at midnight, ‘Light, clear, passing showers.’
absol. 1863. W. C. Baldwin, Afr. Hunting, 376. I have got on very slowly since logging up last.
b. Of a vessel: To traverse (a certain distance) by log-measurements.
1883. E. F. Knight, Cruise ‘Falcon’ (1887), 32. This day we logged 160 miles.
1892. Daily Tel., 29 Dec., 5/1. In one day she hardly logged as much as a hundred knotts.
c. To enter the name of (a man as an offender) in a log-book, with a penalty attached. Hence, to fine.
1889. Times, 10 Sept., 10/5. The understanding … was that the penalties for logging should not be enforced.
1892. Pall Mall Gaz., 30 Aug., 2/1. Taken before the captain on the bridge and ‘logged’ to the extent of from five to twenty shillings.
1892. Labour Commission, Gloss., Logging offences, the entering … in the ‘official log’ of British vessels of offences committed by members of the crew.
1899. F. T. Bullen, Log Sea-waif, 280. I’ll log ye to-morrow.
† 6. intr. ? To be ‘like a log,’ be sluggish. Obs.
1622. Mabbe, trans. Aleman’s Guzman d’Alf., II. 133. Which kinde of Phrase, your old women in Spaine vse to their children, when they goe sneakingly and fearfully about any businesse. Anda, anda, que pareçe que vas a hurtar; Get thee gone, get thee gone, thou goest logging and dreamingly about it, as if thou wentest a filching.
7. Austral. Mining. To log up: To make a log support for the windlass.
1890. ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Miner’s Right, v. 54. We … had logged up and made a start with another shaft.
