log of wood


noun
  1. the log of wood NZ an informal name for Ranfurly Shield

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How to use log of wood in a sentence

  • It was rather high up, and had the usual notched log-of-wood staircase, which is perhaps easy to ascend with naked feet.

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  • At the end of the town, on the other side of the bridge, there lived a Jew named Ephraim Log-of-wood.

    Jewish Children | Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich
  • From his manner of running, I could have sworn the little creature was Ephraim Log-of-wood.

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  • I was forgetting entirely to tell you who Ephraim Log-of-wood was, and what he was, and how the incident happened.

    Jewish Children | Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich
  • At this Ephraim Log-of-wood burst out laughing in his rattling little laugh.

    Jewish Children | Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich