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ground log

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noun

Nautical.
  1. a lead weight attached to a line, cast overboard in shoal water and allowed to pay out freely to show the speed of a ship and the force of the current.


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Saw down now from A half-way through the ground log F. Then from B down to half-way through the log D; now continue from G, cutting down to half through the ground log.

From Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Not having an axe to sharpen and drive them, he dug pairs of holes a foot deep, one at each end and another pair near the middle of the front ground log.

From Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned by Seton, Ernest Thompson

Use the ax to split out the upper half of the ground log, between the saw-cuts and also the upper half of the log D.

From Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

In the ground log he pecked a hole big enough to receive one of the points and made a corresponding hole in the under side of the top log.

From Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned by Seton, Ernest Thompson

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