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part lumberjack, part stenographer — depending on whether you bring an axe or a keyboard.
means A logger is either a person who fells trees and harvests timber, or a device or program that records data over time — both meanings hinge on what "log" you're handling.
from It all traces back to "log," a word of murky Scandinavian-flavored origin meaning a felled tree trunk. The tree-cutter "logger" is the older, sweatier sense — someone who works logs. The recording sense comes from a charming nautical detour: sailors measured a ship's speed by tossing a wooden "log" overboard on a knotted rope, then writing the results in a "log-book." From that book, "log" came to mean any kept record, and a "logger" became anything — clerk or circuit — that keeps one.
- deadliest job
- Logging tops US fatality rates by occupation
- double meaning
- Cuts trees or records every system event
- old-growth foe
- Sequoias survived millennia until saws arrived
- black box
- Flight data loggers reveal crash final seconds
- keylogger cousin
- Quietly captures every keystroke you type
paul bunyan — legendary american logger from folktales, symbol of the logging industry in the 1800s-1900s
fedor weyerhaeuser — founded weyerhaeuser company in 1900, became one of the largest timber companies in the world