Dutchman's log
English
Noun
Dutchman
's
log
(
nautical
,
historical
)
Any early device for measuring the
speed
of a moving
ship
, where a sailor threw a floating object overboard and used a
sandglass
to measure the time it took to pass between two points on deck.
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