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Logging   /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)  
1.
(Naut.), To enter in a ship's log book; as, to log the miles run.
2.
To record any event in a logbook, especially an event relating to the operation of a machine or device.


Log  v. i.  
1.
To engage in the business of cutting or transporting logs for timber; to get out logs. (U.S.)
2.
To move to and fro; to rock. (Obs.)





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"Logging" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the Forests great numbers of logging engineers, lumbermen, scalers, planting assistants, guards, and others. In the great war, the Forest Service raised two regiments of men who went to France to assist in the various kinds of forestry work necessitated by ...
— Community Civics and Rural Life • Arthur W. Dunn
... around," came the steady reply. "Perhaps we might run across another leading clue, and then this one would look foolish. We'd be sorry then, that we thought so bad of Todd. Perhaps, after all, he was only making signals to one of the men connected with the logging camp, up on the Point for ...
— The Aeroplane Boys Flight - A Hydroplane Roundup • John Luther Langworthy
... no marketable value, has been left standing after logging operations, or, where the land has been cleared for farming, the trees have been "girdled" and allowed to rot, and then felled and burned as trash. Now, however, that there is a market for this species of timber, it will be profitable ...
— Seasoning of Wood • Joseph B. Wagner
... logging activities throughout the country and strip mining for gems in the western region along the border with Thailand are resulting in habitat loss and declining biodiversity (in particular, destruction of mangrove swamps threatens natural fisheries); deforestation; ...
— The 1995 CIA World Factbook • United States Central Intelligence Agency
... She's logging sixteen as she speeds from the South, The wind in her royals, a bone in her mouth; With a wake like a mill-race she rolls on her way, For the girls have got ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, May 5, 1920 • Various


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