1) Back scratching 2) Emergency medical procedure 3) English-language idiom 4) Exchange 5) Lumberjack water sport 6) Political back scratching
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1) Birling
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Logrolling is the trading of favors, or quid pro quo, such as vote trading by legislative members to obtain passage of actions of interest to each legislative member. In an academic context, the Nuttall Encyclopedia describes logrolling as `mutual praise by authors of each other`s work.` In organizational analysis, it refers to a practice in wh......
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[medicine] In medicine, in particular, in emergency medicine, the log roll or logrolling is a maneuver used to move a patient without flexing the spinal column. Patient`s legs are stretched, the head is held, to immobilize the neck. Some sources recommend patient`s arms crossed over the chest, while others suggest that to minimize the amoun...
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[sport] Logrolling (log birling or just birling), is a sport that originated in the lumberjack/log driver tradition of the northeastern United States and Canada, involving logs in a river (traditionally) or other body of water. After bringing their logs downriver, the lumberjacks have a competition to see who can balance on a log the longes...
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• (n.) Hence: A combining to assist another in consideration of receiving assistance in return; -- sometimes used of a disreputable mode of accomplishing political schemes or ends. • (n.) 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 neig...
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The exchange of political favors, especially among legislators who agree to support each others' initiatives. Logrolling contributed importantly to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff.
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The act of vote-trading among legislators in the process of getting legislation passed.
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Log'roll`ing noun 1. (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.
Longfellow. [ U.S.]
2. Hence...
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Logrolling is a sport in which tow competitors stand astride a large floating log and try to dislodge the other by rolling the log different directions with their feet.
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n] - act of exchanging favors for mutual gain
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the exchange of support or favors, esp. by legislators for mutual political gain as by voting for each other's bills. · cronyism or mutual favoritism among writers, editors, or critics, as in the form of reciprocal flattering reviews; back scratching. · the action of rolling logs to a particular place. · the action of rotating a l...
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