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log pen 
1 n. Obs. a barrier of logs or other timbers linked by chains and serving to restrain or enclose floating logs, pulpwood, etc.
See also: boom ((1)) ((n.)) (def. 1)
- 1805 They are cut on the banks of the river Welland, and floated down to its mouth, where there is a reservoir made to receive them by a chain of log pens, as they are called
2 n. Obs. a structure of logs forming a kind of cache.
See also: cache ((n.)) (def. 2)
- 1896 (1898) Several families were "starving" before February, that is, either living on hares, owls, martens and other fur-bearing animals from the traps, or stealing from the log pens in which their more industrious neighbors had cached their fish along the lake shore.
3 n. a kind of trap.
See also: log trap
- c1902 (1912) As the rabbits decreased, Koot set out many traps for the bob-cats now reckless with hunger, steel-traps and dead-falls and pits and log pens with a live grouse clucking inside.
- 1805 They are cut on the banks of the river Welland, and floated down to its mouth, where there is a reservoir made to receive them by a chain of log pens, as they are called