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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

WATER-LOGGED

a.[water and log. ] Lying like a log on the water. A ship is said to be water-logged, when by leaking and receiving a great quantity of water into her hold, she has become so heavy as not to be manageable by the helm, and to be at the mercy of the waves.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

WATER-LOGGED

WATER-LOGGED Wa "ter-logged, a.

 

Defn: Filled or saturated with water so as to be heavy, unmanageable, or loglike; -- said of a vessel, when, by receiving a great quantity of water into her hold, she has become so heavy as not to be manageable by the helm.

 

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