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putlog definition

put·log (po̵ot′lôg′)

noun

in masonry construction, any of the horizontal, wood or metal pieces which support the floor planks of a scaffold and which are themselves supported at one end in holes left temporarily in a wall under construction

Etymology: altered (? infl. by log) < earlier putlock < ? put + lock

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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