Definition of Logging

1. Noun. The work of cutting down trees for timber.

Generic synonyms: Work
Derivative terms: Log

Definition of Logging

1. n. The business of felling trees, cutting them into logs, and transporting the logs to sawmills or to market.

Definition of Logging

1. Verb. (present participle of log) ¹

2. Noun. An act or instance of logging. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Logging

1. the business of cutting down trees for timber [n -S]

Medical Definition of Logging

1. The business of felling trees, cutting them into logs, and transporting the logs to sawmills or to market. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Logging

logged on
logger
loggerhead
loggerhead shrike
loggerhead turtle
loggerheaded
loggerheads
loggers
loggets
loggia
loggias
loggie
loggier
loggiest
logginess
logging (current term)
logging in
logging off
logging on
logging residues
loggings
loggish
loggy
logia
logic
logic-chopper
logic analyzer
logic board
logic boards
logic bomb

Literary usage of Logging

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

1. Permafrost: Second International Conference, July 13-28, 1973 : USSR by Frederick J. Sanger, Peter J. Hyde (1978)
"In the same rare instances when standard logging is conducted within the limits of ... Therefore the results of such logging are utilized basically only for ..."

2. The Practice of Silviculture: With Particular Reference to Its Application by Ralph Chipman Hawley (1921)
"Control of Waste and Destruction in logging. — Waste and destruction of timber in the logging is likely to occur in any operation. ..."

3. Roughing it in the Bush, Or, Life in Canada by Susanna Moodie (1852)
"OUR logging-BEE. There was a man in our town, In our town, in our town— There ... He mado a logging-bee ; And he bought lots of whiskey, To make the loggers ..."

4. Adventure Guide Inside Passage & Coastal Alaska by Ed Readicker-Henderson (2006)
"logging The glory days of the Tongass were short-lived. By 1947, Congress had sold off thousands of acres for long-term logging. By the early 1970s, ..."

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