Back"log` (?), n. [Back, a. + log.]

A large stick of wood, forming the of a fire on the hearth.

[U.S.]

There was first a backlog, from fifteen to four and twenty inches in diameter and five feet long, imbedded in the ashes. S. G. Goodrich.

 

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