footlog

English

Etymology

From foot +‎ log.

Noun

footlog (plural footlogs)

  1. A log used as a footbridge.
    • 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC, part IV, page 426:
      The Yankees had burned the bridge but she knew of a footlog bridge across a narrow point of the stream a hundred yards below.
    • 2002, Johnny Molloy, Long Trails of the Southeast‎[1] (Hiking), Menasha Ridge Press, →ISBN, page 138:
      Pass a trail registration station, crossing a swamp on a footlog at 0.2 miles. ... Cross a small branch at 0.9 miles on a footlog.
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