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Water-logged

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Wa´ter-logged
a.1.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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None of these was like it, though it had something of them all, with, added, the sourness of chemical waste and the poisonous effluvium of the bilge of a water-logged ship whereon a multitude of rats had been drowned.
The sail swung round once more, and the cog, battered and torn and well-nigh water-logged, staggered in for this haven of refuge.
His misses at so short a distance were practically non-existent, nor would he have missed this time but for an accident occurring at the very instant that his finger tightened upon the trigger--an accident to which Meriem owed her life--the providential presence of a water-logged tree trunk, one end of which was embedded in the mud of the river bottom and the other end of which floated just beneath the surface where the prow of Malbihn's canoe ran upon it as he fired.
 
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