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The business of felling trees, cutting them into logs, and transporting the logs to sawmills or to market.

Anything which clogs. Dr. H. More.

from Flog, v. t. Flogging chisel (Mach.), a large cold chisel, used in chipping castings. -- Flogging hammer, a small sledge hammer used for striking a flogging chisel.

A birch twig or birch twigs, used for flogging.

To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up. Addison.

Clogging, or having power to clog.

ering action or motion difficult or toilsome; serving to obstruct or hinder; burdensome; clogging. He sunk beneath the cumbrous weight. Swift. That cumbrousand unwieldy style which disfigures English composition so extensively. De Quincey.

To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate. Sprat. To dyst one's jacket, to give one a flogging. [Slang.]

The clogging of a blast furnace.

A beating or flogging; a whipping; a scourging. Garth.

he side of a vessel at the gangway. -- To bring to the gangway, to punish (a seaman) by flogging him at the gangway.

A flogging. [Colloq.] Charles Reade.

A kind of whip for flogging criminals, formerly much used in Russia. The last is a tapering bundle of leather thongs twisted with wire and hardened, so that it mangles the flesh.

A flogging or castigation. [Colloq. or Low]

One engaged in logging. See Log, v. i. [U.S.] Lowell.

Fond of flogging; as, a plagose master. [R.]

eory, by argument or countervailing proof. Same of his blunders seem rather to deserve a flogging than a refutation. Macaulay.

A gratuitous helping forward of another's work; as, a logging spell. [Local, U.S.]

ble strip of leather, cloth, or the like; specifically, a strip of thick leather used in flogging. A lively cobbler that . . . had scarce passed a day without giving her [his wife] the discipline of the strap. Addison.

, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape and prevent clogging.