Logging

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Middle English (in the sense ‘bulky mass of wood’): of unknown origin; perhaps symbolic of the notion of heaviness. log1 (sense 3 of the noun) originally denoted a thin quadrant of wood loaded to float upright in the water, whence ‘ship's journal’ in which information derived from this device was recorded.


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logging (n.1)

"act of felling timber," 1706, verbal noun from log (v.1).




logging (n.2)

"act of recording in a log," 1941, verbal noun from log (v.2).