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ˈlog-ˌroller
[f. log n.1 + roller.]
1. One who engages in political or literary ‘log-rolling’.
1864Sala in Daily Tel. 4 Aug., A professional politician..lobbyer and log-roller generally. 1887N. & Q. 7th Ser. III. 120/1 Mr. Lang..shows what log-rollers were Hayward and Thackeray. 1897[see back-scratching vbl. n.]. 1900Author 1 Jan. 183 In these columns notes on books are given from reviews which carry weight, and are not, so far as can be learned, logrollers. 1966Listener 3 Mar. 324/1 Whether as editor,..impresario, log-roller, or friend, Ford seems to have been mixed up with almost every major writer of his time. 1968New Scientist 5 Sept. 474/2 The same old professional log-rollers are going to say lightly-disguised variations of the thing they said to the same applauding audiences they met somewhere else last year. 1974Listener 10 Jan. 54/3 D. G. Rossetti..would set Swinburne and the rest of his..practised log-rollers to promote his discovery.
2. U.S. ‘A device in a saw-mill to convey logs from the log-deck or the log-way skids to the head-block’ (Knight).
1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., Fig. 1629 Emery's Log Roller.
3. One who practises the aquatic sport of ‘log-rolling’.
1893Westm. Gaz. 16 May 5/1 Canoes, shells, dug-outs, water-cycles, logs and log-rollers, and water-walkers, were present too in large numbers... At the start one of the log-rollers managed to drop off his log. |