ozoned@lemmy.world to Risa@startrek.websiteEnglish · 1 year agoIt's big! It's heavy! It's wood!lemmy.worldimagemessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1347arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1345arrow-down1imageIt's big! It's heavy! It's wood!lemmy.worldozoned@lemmy.world to Risa@startrek.websiteEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square23fedilinkfile-text
minus-square1stTime4MeInMCU@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·1 year agoThat kind of log floating behind ships was where the term log comes from. They’d throw them overboard and let them drift out over some interval and they’d mark down “log took 30 seconds to drift out to end of rope” to determine their speed.
minus-squareOlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoI’ll be damned: https://www.etymonline.com/word/log
minus-squareℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoSee also: knot (literally how many knots in the rope were pulled overboard by said log in a given time).
That kind of log floating behind ships was where the term log comes from. They’d throw them overboard and let them drift out over some interval and they’d mark down “log took 30 seconds to drift out to end of rope” to determine their speed.
I’ll be damned:
https://www.etymonline.com/word/log
Oh my log
FTFY
See also: knot (literally how many knots in the rope were pulled overboard by said log in a given time).
TIL