log-rollingn.
/ˈlɒɡˌrəʊlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈlɔɡˌroʊlɪŋ/, /ˈlɑɡˌroʊlɪŋ/ 1. U.S.
a. The action of rolling logs to any required spot; a meeting for co-operation in doing this.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > transport of logs
flume1784
log-rollinga1792
drive1835
river-driving1843
river drive1845
sluice-way1851
sacking1860
timber drivea1861
skidding1877
log-running1878
skid road1880
rigging1897
swamping1902
log-drivea1904
high lead1905
high-lining1919
society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [noun] > gatherings for specific activity
apple paring1656
house raising1704
quilting1768
bee1769
sing-song1769
reading party1781
rocking1786
cotton-picking1795
rolling1819
picking bee1828
candy pulling1834
candy pull1845
taffy-join1854
barn-raising1856
taffy pulling1863
coffee shop1880
log-rolling1883
taffy pull1883
petting party1920
play date1975
a1792 J. W. Monette Mississippi Valley (1848) II. 8 The standard dinner dish at log-rollings, house-raisings, and harvest days, was a large pot-pie.
1834 W. A. Carruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. 25 When we Kentuck boys gits at it, it won't all end like a log rollin, with one or two broken shins and a black eye.
1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase xix. 159 Yet at the very next log-rolling, he proclaimed both Glenville and Carlson to be converts to his ‘idee’.
1848 H. D. Thoreau Ktaadn, & Maine Woods in Union Mag. Aug. 73/2 Occasionally there was a small opening on the bank, made for the purpose of log-rolling.
1859 A. Cary Pictures Country Life 7 It was less welcome than as if it had brought a log-rolling.
1883 Harper's Mag. Jan. 283/1 The great festivals of Western life are camp-meetings, barbecues, and log-rollings.
b. The action of propelling over the water a log on which one is seated.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > other water sports > [noun] > log-rolling
log-rolling1893
1893 Westm. Gaz. 16 May 5/1 For the special benefit of the distinguished spectators..an elaborate display of log-rolling was given.
2. colloquial (originally U.S.).
a. Combination for mutual assistance in political or other action. Also attributive or as adj.Suggested by the proverbial phrase ‘You roll my log and I'll roll yours’.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > types of help > [noun] > mutual assistance
mutual aid1537
giff-gaff1549
giff-gaffing1606
log-rolling1823
back-scratching1924
society > authority > rule or government > politics > discreditable political activity > [noun] > combination for mutual assistance
logging1817
log-rolling1823
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > procedure of parliament or national assembly > [noun] > attempting to influence parliament or assembly
log-rolling1823
lobbying1832
lobbyism1883
1823 Niles' Weekly Reg. 7 June 210/1 That sort of ‘management’, now rather more fashionable, and known by the dignified appellation of ‘log-rolling’—that is, a buying and selling of votes.
1838 J. A. Quitman Let. 13 Dec. in J. F. H. Claiborne Life & Corr. J. A. Quitman (1860) I. 165 Tending to promote combinations and log-rolling schemes.
1841–4 R. W. Emerson Poet in Wks. (1906) I. 169 Our log-rolling, our stumps and their politics..are yet unsung.
1860 S. Mordecai Virginia (ed. 2) xxx. 303 But the log-rolling system of Virginia has diverted her energies from the completion of any one useful work.
1869 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 365/2 The log-rolling lobby generally exerted their powers upon objects which possessed a public character.
1879 Times 19 June The bribe was political preferment, or ‘log-rolling’—that is, help in passing other Bills.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. I. xv. 213 Corruption..appears chiefly in the milder form of reciprocal jobbing or (as it is called) ‘log-rolling’.
1889 G. B. Shaw in Star 15 Nov. 4/3 I received them with imprecations, having exhausted every form of words that logrolling amenity could take.
1914 W. B. Yeats Responsibilities 78 Log-rolling cranks and faddists.
1919 New Statesman 2 Aug. 437/2 There is no such thing as gratitude in politics—a fact which is perhaps the chief security we have against a universal orgie of log-rolling.
1929 A. Douglas Autobiogr. xxxiii. 222 I was involved in half-a-dozen controversies which covered matters of principle and the welfare of letters, as opposed to log~rolling and corrupt cliques.
1932 N. M. Butler Looking Forward vi. 87 This is no time..to permit log-rolling combinations of special interests to use public authority for their own benefit.
1951 V. Nabokov Speak, Memory xiv. 212 In their attitude toward literature they were curiously conservative; with them soul-saving came first, log-rolling next, and art last.
1957 J. S. Huxley Relig. without Revelation vi. 136 Politics would degenerate into a game of log-rolling.
1975 N.Y. Times 4 Mar. 33/3 In fact, a logrolling system, from which women rarely benefit, is the norm for faculty hiring.
b. Mutual puffing in literary publications.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > [noun] > for an ulterior purpose
puffery1731
puff1732
jolly1856
log-rolling1888
build-up1927
society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > review or critique > [noun] > reviewing > favourably in hope of return
log-rolling1888
1845 in Longman's Mag. (1900) Feb. 375 Somewhere in this book of Letters occurs, about 1845, the phrase ‘literary log-rolling’, the earliest instance which one has met.]
1888 J. Payn in Illustr. London News 7 Jan. 2 To have an eye to its [the book's] merits rather than to its defects, is obviously log-rolling.
18.. American XVII. 350 If by log~rolling is meant that reviewers praise people in hopes of being praised in turn, then the taunt is empty.
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