DCHP-3

log up

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1v. — Hist.

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

See: log ((v.))(def. 1)

Quotations

1829
. . . after this we logged up and cleared three acres. . . .
1832
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."
2v. — Obs.

construct (of logs), as a cabin.

Quotations

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.