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▪ I. logged, ppl. a.|lɒgd| [f. log v. + -ed1.] a. Reduced to the condition of a log; lit. and fig. rendered incapable of action or movement. Of water: Stagnant. Of a vessel: Water-logged. b. Of land: Cleared by hewing the timber into logs. Also logged-off.
c1820N. Eng. Hist. & Gen. Register (1891) XLV. 273 With deliberate aim, I kill one [Indian] and leave the other logg'd. 1838Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. I. 265/2 Should she happen to get logged, there would be perhaps a difficulty in bringing her to the proper steer again. 1880Disraeli Endym. lxiii, We should find employment..in other countries, even if the States were logged. 188919th Cent. Oct. 702 Dippers [birds] will not long stay where the water is slow or logged. 1901Scotsman 29 Oct. 9/2 The assumption that the logged..areas contained the same average quantity of timber per acre as the forests still standing. 1908Chambers's Jrnl. 2 May 352/1 The people who are taking up the ‘logged-off’ lands are usually accustomed to getting along in a small way. 1911U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmer's Bull. No. 462. 5 The merchantable timber has been stripped from large areas, leaving what is known as ‘logged-off’ or ‘cut-over’ land. 1921Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 25 Mar. 4/3 The report contains a great array of information referring to the sub-division of logged-off lands and expired timber licences for settlement on the coast. ▪ II. logged, a. U.S. [f. log n.1 + -ed2.] Built of logs.
1784Washington Diaries (1925) II. 294 A Logged dwelling house with a punchion Roof. 1834Knickerbocker III. 32 Immediately on the road, appeared a large rude double logged cabin. 1972J. Bunting Lionheads 155 The bunker, a mud carapace with logged sides, is ten meters inland. |