Definition of Log up

1. Verb. Record a distance travelled; on planes and cars.

Exact synonyms: Clock Up
Generic synonyms: Enter, Put Down, Record

Lexicographical Neighbors of Log Up

log boat
log cabin
log cabins
log choker
log dog
log drive
log drives
log flumes
log in
log jam
log line
log off
log on
log out
log up (current term)
logagnosia
logagraphia
logamediate
logamnesia
loganate
loganberries
loganberry
loganias
logans
logaoedic
logaoedics
logaphasia
logarithm
logarithmancy

Literary usage of Log up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Forester: A Practical Treatise on British Forestry and Arboriculture for by John Nisbet (1905)
"The heavy regulating-wheel and the motive crank are generally beneath the floor-level on which the travelling-carriage feeds the log up to the saws ; and as ..."

2. A Mill Scale Study of Western Yellow Pine by Herman E. McKenzie (1915)
"The second log up from the stump contains none of the wood formed while the tree's height was less than the length of the butt log plus the height of the ..."

3. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"An' all on a suddent de log up and spoke: "Get offen nie.' Get offen me!" yell' dat log. So liT black Mose he git' offen dat log, an' no mistake. ..."

4. The Best Short Stories of ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story edited by Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (1919)
"The log up-ended and went down! We swirled through great depths, and often I felt us hit against rocks and other logs in the lower silences. ..."

5. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases and Usages with by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"Logs ! ' I says. ' There don't seem to be many about this part. The trees are all too small." ' log up, v. to make a log-support for the windlass. ..."

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