backlog†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a large log placed at the back of a wood fire to make it last.

Quotations

1829

When the party got to the place, there was a . . . blazing fire with a maple back log . . . .

1956

At what had been the door of the tent, a charred backlog was grown over with moss.