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noun

Logrolling n.

(Logging) The act or process of rolling logs from the place where they were felled to the stream which floats them to the sawmill or to market. In this labor neighboring camps of loggers combine to assist each other in turn. (U.S.)

Hence: A combining or mutual agreement in which one politician supports or assists another in consideration of receiving assistance in return; wheeling and dealing; sometimes used of a disreputable mode of accomplishing political schemes or ends. (Cant, U.S.)

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Etymology of 'Logrolling'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Logrolling" Quotes from Famous Books

... the newspaper and caucus, Methodism and Unitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people, but rest on the same foundations of wonder as the town of Troy and the temple of Delphi, and are as swiftly passing away. Our logrolling, our stumps and their politics, our fisheries, our Negroes and Indians, our boats and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon and Texas, ...

— Essays, Second Series • Ralph Waldo Emerson

Words linked to "Logrolling" : twisting, athletics, birling, whirl, exchange, logroll, sport, twist, twirl, spin