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log up

v. record a distance travelled; on planes and cars [syn: clock up]

Usage examples of "log up".

One of the soldiers had pulled a log up alongside the fire, and Ashford went now and sat down.

Flugg, will you and some of the others take Log-a-Log up into the daylight?

Reluctantly, the second batch of Dilbians leaned their log up against this and fell back.

Asayaga detailed off the rest of his men to the cables going up over the inverted V, ordering them to pull and keep the forward end of the log up high.

Klaus had pushed the log up to the saw, and Charles's eyes grew even wider as the blade began to slice the wood, getting closer and closer to where Charles was tied up.

I was wedged in between Redruth and a stout old gentleman, and in spite of the swift motion and the cold night air, I must have dozed a great deal from the very first, and then slept like a log up hill and down dale through stage after stage, for when I was awakened at last it was by a punch in the ribs, and I opened my eyes to find that we were standing still before a large building in a city street and that the day had already broken a long time.

They pushed and pried and lifted and gasped, pushing the log up the skids.

Two men operated this carriage by levers, one to take the log up to the saw, and the other to run it back for another cut.

Then, laughing raucously, they nailed his hands and feet to one of the logs with long spikes and, with a great shout, they hurled the log up onto the bonfire.

I rolled a log up to the fire for him and shoved it against a tree that was blocked from the raw biting wind by a stand of hawthorns.

She watched the man for a minute and then took off her coat, lifted a second sledgehammer off the wall, squeezed a spare wedge between her fingers, testing its weight, set a log up on the block, tapped the wedge into its rough surface, stepped back, and swung cleanly.