Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word log-cabins.

Examples

  • Not a thread of smoke was rising from the hundreds of log-cabins.

    Too Much Gold 2010

  • There were only three log-cabins in Red Cow -- the majority of the population of forty men living in tents or brush shacks; and there was no jail in which to confine malefactors, while the inhabitants were too busy digging gold or seeking gold to take a day off and build a jail.

    The Passing of Marcus O'Brien 2010

  • Not a thread of smoke was rising from the hundreds of log-cabins.

    TOO MUCH GOLD 2010

  • Either species would suffice in summer; but for winter they usually built huts, as they called them, similar to the modern log-cabins in the forests of the West, though in some instances if not in most, they were roofed, after the English fashion, with thatch.

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2007

  • Once dark-skinned men had built their huts where that fort stood; yes, and their huts had risen where now stood the fields and log-cabins of fair-haired settlers, back beyond Velitrium, that raw, turbulent frontier town on the banks of Thunder River, to the shores of that other river that bounds the Bossonian marches.

    The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • Once dark-skinned men had built their huts where that fort stood; yes, and their huts had risen where now stood the fields and log-cabins of fair-haired settlers, back beyond Velitrium, that raw, turbulent frontier town on the banks of Thunder River, to the shores of that other river that bounds the Bossonian marches.

    The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • We were told, and our people believed, that nothing could ever be done with the Seminoles, and yet, there I found them living quietly in their neat log-cabins, working their farms, and sending their children to school, with as much earnestness as their white neighbors.

    Notes Among the Indians 1995

  • They built themselves log-cabins, not so convenient as those at

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 Various

  • Parallel with this little stream, where it winds into a narrow chasm between abrupt mountain walls, winds a crooked street, with a straggling row of log-cabins on either side, and looking from the mountain-tops very much like the vertebræ of a huge serpent.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 Various

  • From the mouth of the cañon to its very end, among snows almost perpetual, are the one-storied log-cabins, gathered now and then into clusters, which are called cities, and named by the miner from his old homes in Colorado and Nevada.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 Various

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.