- present participle of log.
logging
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loggings
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the process, work, or business of cutting down trees and transporting the logs to sawmills.
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Nautical. a deduction from the pay of a sailor, made as a fine or forfeit and recorded in the logbook of the ship.
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The Blackshear, Ga., logging firm buys standing timber from landowners, deploys logging crews and hauls the wood to mills.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Plate readers logging the cars in the pickup line.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
Captive elephants, once used commonly for logging, are now used for tourism, entertainment, and religious ceremonies.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
“Once you start bulldozing roads for commercial logging and industrial development, there’s no getting them back.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Ten years later, the Maine Appalachian Trail Club rerouted 263 miles of trail—half its total length across the state—removing the trail from logging roads and putting it back in the wilds.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
There were "harvest homes" and "quilting bees" and "loggings" and "barn raisings."
From Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
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