putlog

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Noun

HYPHEN

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CIDE DICTIONARY

putlog, n.

One of the short pieces of timber on which the planks forming the floor of a scaffold are laid, -- one end resting on the ledger of the scaffold, and the other in a hole left in the wall temporarily for the purpose. Oxf. Gloss. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

putlog, n. (also putlock) a short horizontal timber projecting from a wall, on which scaffold floorboards rest.

Etymology

17th c.: orig. uncert.

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