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Categories: Portuguese inventions, Measuring instruments, Sailors (sport), Marine navigation, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference

log chip log knot log Knotted line Log reel

Measuring instrument that consists of a float that trails from a ship by a knotted line in order to measure the ship's speed through the water WordNet 3.0

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Measuring instrument that consists of a float that trails from a ship by a knotted line in order to measure the ship's speed through the water WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

A chip log, also called common log, ship log, or just log, is a navigation tool mariners use to estimate the speed of a vessel through water. Wikipedia

A simple device for measuring the speed of a vessel, consisting of a wooden board (drag) attached to a line on a reel. Wiktionary

Simple device for measuring the speed of a vessel. Wiktionary (translation)

A floating device, usually of wood, used in navigation to estimate the speed of a vessel through water. Wiktionary

IS A

measuring instrument

navigational instrument

HAS PART

log line

PART OF

ship

HAS KIND

harpoon log