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a dead tree's afterlife as bench, beetle hotel, and the campfire's last meal
means A length of trunk or thick branch cut from a felled tree — or, by extension, a running record of events kept in sequence.
from From Old English or early Germanic stock, related to Old Norse 'lág' meaning a felled tree. The record-keeping sense sailed in later: ships measured speed by tossing overboard a 'log' — a wooden float on a knotted line — and noting the readings in the 'log-book.' So the dead tree got a second job as a tally of miles, and eventually any kept record became a 'log,' verb and all.
- floats
- Once moved entire forests downriver to mills
- nurse log
- Rotting logs grow whole rows of new trees
- math twin
- Logarithms named for log-shaped counting rods
- world record
- Logrolling competitions still crown champions today
- data echo
- Computers keep logs, named for ship speed records
titanic's captain's log — captain edward smith's final records from april 14-15, 1912, documenting the ship's last hours
yule log — burning of a large log during christmas celebration, tradition dating back to medieval england