LOGBOOK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does logbook mean? 

• LOGBOOK (noun)
  The noun LOGBOOK has 1 sense:

1. a book in which the log is written

  Familiarity information: LOGBOOK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOGBOOK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A book in which the log is written

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("logbook" is a kind of...):

book; record; record book (a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "logbook"):

bell book (a logbook in which all orders concerning the main engines of a ship are recorded)

 Context examples 

I tried last night to get at these logbooks, but was unable to open the door.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I read at the inquest a description of his cabin, in which it stated that the old logbooks of his vessel were preserved in it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He returned with a large book, one of the logbooks which formed a line upon the shelves.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was a bunk at one end, a sea-chest, maps and charts, a picture of the Sea Unicorn, a line of logbooks on a shelf, all exactly as one would expect to find it in a captain’s room.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)