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Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: log- + Greek griphos reed basket, riddle — more at crib Date: circa 1598 a word puzzle (as an anagram)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Logogriph Log"o*griph, n. [Gr. ? word + ? a fishing net, a dark saying, a riddle: F. logogriphe.] A sort of riddle in which it is required to discover a chosen word from various combinations of its letters, or of some of its letters, which form other words; -- thus, to discover the chosen word chatter form cat, hat, rat, hate, rate, etc. --B. Jonson.