deadhead

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a water-soaked log partly or entirely submerged, usually with one end embedded in the bottom.

See: snag(def. 1)

Quotations

1902

He was enabled to catch the slanting end of a "dead head" log whose lower end was jammed in the crib.

1924

Trunks, branches, and foliage of the wreckage swayed like dead heads at midstream.

1963

In lakes try [fishing] beside shoreline deadheads, fallen trees and logs.