log
/lɔɡ/ noun B1- The trunk of a dead tree, cleared of branches. · They walked across the stream on a fallen log.
- Any bulky piece as cut from the above, used as timber, fuel etc.
- A unit of length equivalent to 16 feet, used for measuring timber, especially the trunk of a tree.
- Any cylinder; anything shaped like a tree log, particularly
- A rolled cake with filling.
- A solid and long piece of feces.
- The penis.
- A floating device, usually of wood, used in navigation to estimate the speed of a vessel through water.
Plural logs
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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When Marilla and Anne went home Diana went with them as far as the log bridge.
Who are we, the Gidur-log [the jackal people], to pick and choose?” He scuttled to the back of the cave, where he found the bone of a buck with some meat on it, and sat cracking the end merrily.
But the raft was nearly done, and after the Tin Woodman had cut a few more logs and fastened them together with wooden pins, they were ready to start.
A WOLF, meeting a big well-fed Mastiff with a wooden collar about his neck asked him who it was that fed him so well and yet compelled him to drag that heavy log about wherever he went.
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