footlog

From foot +‎ log.

footlog (plural footlogs)

1. A log used as a footbridge.
   • 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC, part IV, page 426:

     The Yankees had burned the bridge but she knew of a footlog bridge across a narrow point of the stream a hundred yards below.

   • 2002, Johnny Molloy, Long Trails of the Southeast‎ (Hiking), Menasha Ridge Press, →ISBN, page 138:

     Pass a trail registration station, crossing a swamp on a footlog at 0.2 miles. ... Cross a small branch at 0.9 miles on a footlog.