logan
logan Lexical Profile
logan Game Scores & Validity
• noun
American A city in northern Utah, United States, located in the Cache Valley and serving as the county seat of Cache County and the home of Utah State University.
Canadian The highest mountain in Canada and the second-highest peak in North America, located in the Saint Elias Mountains of southwestern Yukon (more fully Mount Logan).
British A large boulder or mass of rock, especially in Cornwall and southwestern England, balanced so precisely on a narrow base that it can be made to rock back and forth with slight force.
"The hikers paused on the granite tor to test whether the ancient logan could still be rocked by hand."
North American A shallow, stagnant backwater, marshy cove, or side channel of a river or lake in northern New England and eastern Canada.
"We paddled our canoe out of the main current and into a quiet logan to look for wading birds."
The edible, tart, dark-red hybrid berry produced by the loganberry plant, a cross between a blackberry and a red raspberry.
"She harvested a basket of ripe logans from the garden to make a tangy summer preserve."
• verb
British To rock or move to and fro like a balanced stone (used especially in Cornish dialect).
"The weathered boulder on the headland still logans slightly when a strong gale blows from the sea."
• Rhymes for logan
Word Origin & Etymology
The geological sense derives from the Cornish dialect verb 'log', meaning to rock or oscillate to and fro. The North American hydrographical sense denoting a stagnant backwater comes via Canadian French 'pokelogan' from an Eastern Algonquian word meaning a marshy cove or shallow inlet.