putlog

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun One of the pieces of timber, or metal, on which the planks forming the platform of scaffolding are supported, one end resting on the ledger of the scaffold, and the other in a hole made in the wall (a putlog hole) for that purpose.

Similar words

putlock ligger footlog stop log logget loggat joist slab stub saw log

Often followed by

holes hole scaffold is and

Word family

putlogs