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1stTime4MeInMCU@mander.xyz 10 months ago
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.
BorgDrone@lemmy.one 9 months ago
OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ll be damned:
www.etymonline.com/word/log
randomuser38529@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Oh my log FTFY
name_NULL111653@pawb.social 9 months ago
See also: knot (literally how many knots in the rope were pulled overboard by said log in a given time).