Meanings of palmetto logs in English

Beyond these, well fenced with palmetto logs, lay a small garden.

Eight upright palmetto logs, unsplit and undressed, support the roof.

In construction, the sides were palmetto logs, dovetailed and bolted together, laid in parallel rows, sixteen feet apart; the interspace being filled with sand.

The merlons were walled entirely by palmetto logs, notched into one another at the angles, well bolted together and strengthened with pieces of massy timber.

Palmetto logs accept and retain balls for many years, and are therefore good for forts.

[Footnote: This fort was built of palmetto logs, which are so soft that balls sink into them without splitting the wood.