logrolling

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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, are yet unsung.

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  1. noun The exchanging of political favors, especially the trading of influence or votes among legislators to achieve passage of projects that are of interest to one another.
  2. noun The exchanging of favors or praise, as among artists, critics, or academics.
  3. noun See birling.

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  • WHEN I was fourteen three tremendous events had marked my life: sunlight through a window-pane; the logrolling on the river when father added two rooms to our cabin; and the night I thought mother would die and leave me the only woman in eighteen miles. —  The Log-Cabin Lady
  • Behind your back Senator Grant and I have been doing some logrolling. —  Space
  • Skipping lightly as an autumn leaf, he ran along the knobbed and enameled expanse of the animal's back, keeping his balance like a logrolling champ while the reptile writhed and spun in an effort to discover what this peculiar prey was up to now. —  The Golden Torc
  • It seems to champion compromise, modesty, and muddling through; to justify logrolling, deal-making, self-interest, pork barrels, paralysis, and inefficiency-all the sausage-making that no one wants to see and that editorialists throughout our history have often labeled as corrupt. —  The Audacity of Hope
  • 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, are yet unsung. —  Essays — Second Series
 

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  1. From the early American practice of neighbors gathering to help clear land by rolling off and burning felled timber.
 

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