DCHP-1 Online

log up

• 1 v. Hist. in clearing land, remove trees by felling, cutting into lengths, and piling ready for burning, splitting, etc.

  See also: log ((v.)) (def. 1)  

  • 1829  (1957)  . . . after this we logged up and cleared three acres. . . .
  • 1832  (1966)  The wind fallen trees are chopped through in length, to be logged up in the spring with the winter's chopping.
  • 1853  The remainder of the fallow should be burnt off and logged up in July, the rail-cuts split into quarters and drawn off to the site of the fences, ready for splitting into rails.
  • 1957  Finding no demand for weavers . . . he hired out to "log up."

• 2 v. Obs. construct (of logs), as a cabin.

  • 1897  The houses are built with a framework of squared timber which is well logged up, and the chinks well packed with moss and mud.