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log ship

American  
Or logship

noun

Nautical.

  1. log chip.

Etymology

Origin of log ship

First recorded in 1835–45

Example Sentences

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When the pin slips out of the log ship and it slides through the water.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

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