ozoned@lemmy.world to Risa@startrek.websiteEnglish · 11 months agoIt's big! It's heavy! It's wood!lemmy.worldimagemessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1342arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1340arrow-down1imageIt's big! It's heavy! It's wood!lemmy.worldozoned@lemmy.world to Risa@startrek.websiteEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square22fedilinkfile-text
minus-square1stTime4MeInMCUlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·11 months 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-up6·11 months agoI’ll be damned: https://www.etymonline.com/word/log
minus-squarerandomuser38529@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-211 months agoOh my log FTFY
minus-squareℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 months 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