log ship
Americannoun
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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