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Webster 1913 Edition

Backlog

Back′logˊ

(băk′lŏgˊ; 115)

,

Noun.

[

Back

, a. +

log

.]

1.

A large stick of wood, forming the back of a fire on the hearth. Contrasted to

forestick

.

[U.S.]

There was first a

backlog

, from fifteen to four and twenty inches in diameter and five feet long, imbedded in the ashes.

S. G. Goodrich.