[f. LOG v.1 + -ING1.]
1. The action of felling timber or hewing it into logs. Also concr. A quantity of timber felled.
1706. New Hampsh. Prov. Papers (1869), III. 337. Those whose livelihood chiefly consists in Logging and working in the woods.
1823. J. F. Cooper, Pioneers, xvii. (1869), 74/1. His piles, or to use the language of the country, his logging.
1881. Chicago Times, 16 April. It has been a hard winter for logging.
1895. Crockett, Bog-Myrtle, 400. During his student days he combined the theory of theology with the practice of ‘logging.’
2. (See quot., and cf. log-rolling 2.)
1817. T. Jefferson, Lett., 16 June, in Writ. (1830), IV. 307. The barter of votes … which with us is called ‘logging,’ the term of the farmers for their exchanges of aid in rolling together the logs of their newly cleared grounds.
3. attrib. and Comb., as logging-camp, -path, -road, -shirt, -sled; logging-bee U.S. (cf. BEE1 4).
1836. Backwoods of Canada, 192. We called a *logging-bee; we had a number of settlers attend … to assist us.
1880. N. H. Bishop, 4 Months in Sneak-Box, 248. Following along its bank for a mile, we arrived at the *logging-camp of Mr. Childeers.
1857. Thoreau, Maine W. (1894), 291. We … were soon confused by numerous *logging-paths.
1839. C. T. Jackson, 3rd Rep. Geol. Maine, 41. We … walked along a *logging road in the forest beside the stream.
1896. R. Kipling, Seven Seas, 112. Robin down the logging-road whistles ‘Come to me.’
1845. P. Parley’s Ann., VI. 30. A coarse garment of hempen cloth, called a *logging shirt.
1741. New Hampsh. Prov. Papers (1872), VI. 349. Sent our Baggage on *loging sleds to Rochester from Cochecho.
