Log

log, n. A bulky stick of wood or timber. (Navt.) An apparatus for measuring the rate of a ship's motion through the water; journal of a ship's progre , etc.; log-book.— v. i. [LOGGED(logd), -GiNG.J To cut and get out logs. — Log'wood, n. A red, heavy, astringent dye-wood fr. S. Amer. and the W. Indies, used with other Log, Line, and agents to color yellow, brown, and Gla . esp. black; haamatoxylon; Cam- A blockhead; peachy wood. — Log'gerhead, n. dunce; a spherical ma of iron, with a long handle, used to heat tar. (Navt.) A piece of round timber, in a whale-boat, over which the line is pa ed, to make it run more slowly.