log
The trunk of a dead tree, cleared of branches.
Example
“They walked across the stream on a fallen log.”
Other meanings
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.
A kind of
- wood
Kinds of log
- nurse log
- saw log
Example sentences
Word history
From Old Norse "liggja" (to lie).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “log” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.