Crossword-Solution: LOGROLLING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Logrolling | 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 neighboring camps of loggers combine to assist each other in turn. |
| Logrolling | 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. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “LOGROLLING”
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| Back-scratchers' activity | 1 answer |
| Legislative exchange of favors | 1 answer |
| Lumberjack water sport | 1 answer |
| Political back scratching | 1 answer |
| Several fallen trees immediately joined the campaign by engaging in... | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with LOGROLLING (5)
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.
From this source we get "dark horse," "the gray mare is the better horse," "barrel of money," "buncombe," "gerrymander," "scalawag," "henchman," "logrolling," "pulling the wires," "taking the stump," "machine," "slate," etc.
For a legislature without effective means of information and analysis must oscillate between blind regularity, tempered by occasional insurgency, and logrolling.
And it is the logrolling which makes the regularity palatable, because it is by logrolling that a Congressman proves to his more active constituents that he is watching their interests as they conceive them.
These appropriations are secured by what you call in America 'logrolling.' That is, Smith of one town makes an arrangement with Brown, Jones, Robinson, and I don't know how many others of as many other towns that he will vote for their appropriations, provided they will vote for his.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1978–2012).