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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... concert, concurrence, complicity, participation; union &c 43; additivity, combination &c 48; collusion. association, alliance, colleagueship^, joint stock, copartnership^; cartel; confederation &c (party) 712; coalition, fusion; a long pull a strong pull and a pull all together; logrolling, freemasonry. unanimity &c (assent) 488; esprit de corps, party spirit; clanship^, partisanship; concord &c 714. synergy, coaction^. V. cooperate, concur; coact^, synergize. conduce &c 178; combine, unite one's efforts; ...

— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... school-teachers, says that he has gone over Banner's life carefully with him, and that he must have been twenty-one or twenty-two at the close of the War because during slavery, he had experience at logging, or rather at logrolling, a work so difficult that only full-grown men were used at it. Since Banner is slightly built, there is scarcely a possibility that he did such work before the ...

— Slave Narratives: Arkansas Narratives - Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 • Works Projects Administration

Words linked to "Logrolling" : logroll, twisting, exchange, athletics, birling