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I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymo~y: Middle English ~ge Date: 14th century a usually bulky piece or length of a cut or fallen tree, an apparatus for measuring the rate of a ship's motion through the water that consists of a block fastened to a line and run out from a reel, 3. the record of the rate of a ship's speed or of her daily progress, the full record of a flight by an aircraft, a record of performance, events, or day-to-day activities , II. verb (~ged; ~ging) Date: 1699 transitive verb 1. to cut (trees) for lumber, to clear (land) of trees in lumbering, to make a note or record of ; enter details of or about in a ~, 3. to move (an indicated distance) or attain (an indicated speed) as noted in a ~, b. to sail a ship or fly an airplane for (an indicated distance or period of time), to have (an indicated record) to one's credit ; achieve , intransitive verb lumber III,1, III. noun Usage: often attributive Etymo~y: by shortening Date: 1631 ~arithm , IV. abbreviation ~ic