He squatted by the upright logs, shook his cloak, then pulled the hood farther over his face and tried to ignore the cold.

The slave compound was a circular palisade of upright logs driven into the ground and bound together by ropes.

At either end was a pair of upright logs, set about two handspans apart.

A common danger for inexperienced splitters is to miss the upright log entirely or give it only a glancing blow.

A palisade wall, probably made of upright logs, constituted the rear wall and was pierced by a gate.

We bumped against the dock and they secured the barge to an upright log while Sala drove the car to solid ground.

Since 1994, students had wrapped steel cables around this lowest tier, or stack, of upright logs for extra support, he said.

The entire complex, which is believed to have included hundreds of houses, was surrounded by an earthen wall topped with a palisade of upright logs.

They thronged through the gate, shouting questions at the sentries who patrolled the firing-ledges built below the points of the upright logs.

Balthus grasped the points of the upright logs set in the sun- dried mud and scrambled up on them, ignoring the havoc done his skin.