What is "logrolling"

Logrolling \Log"roll`ing\, n.

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: A combining or mutual agreement in which one politician supports or assists another in consideration of receiving assistance in return; wheeling and dealing; -- sometimes used of a disreputable mode of accomplishing political schemes or ends. [Cant, U.S.]

also log-rolling, in the legislative vote-trading sense, 1823, American English, from the notion of neighbors on the frontier helping one another with the heavy work of clearing land and building cabins (as in phrase you roll my log and I'll roll yours); see log (n.1) + rolling.\n\nLOG-ROLLING. 1. In the lumber regions of Maine it is customary for men of different logging camps to appoint days for helping each other in rolling the logs to the river, after they are felled and trimmed -- this rolling being about the hardest work incident to the business. Thus the men of three or four camps will unite, say on Monday, to roll for camp No. 1, -- on Tuesday for camp No. 2, -- on Wednesday for camp No. 3, -- and so on, through the whole number of camps within convenient distance of each other.

[Bartlett]

n. 1 The rolling of logs. 2 A concerted effort to push forward mutually advantageous legislative agendas by combining two items, either or both of which might fail on its own, into a single bill that is more likely to pass. 3 Mutual recommendation of friends' or colleagues' services or products, such as in book recommendations in literary reviews, etc.

1. n. act of exchanging favors for mutual gain; especially trading of influence or votes among legislators to gain passage of certain projects

2. rotating a log rapidly in the water (as a competitive sport) [syn: birling]

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 which different organizations promote each other's agendas, each in the expectation that the other will reciprocate.

The sport involves two athletes, each on one end of a log in a body of water. The competitors fight to stay on the log by sprinting and kicking the log as they attempt to cause their opponent to fall off.

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 amount of lateral spinal displacement the arms must be stretched along the sides, with palms resting on the thighs. After that the patient is carefully rolled in the desired direction without twisting or bending the body.

Typically logrolling into a supine position is used for transport of a casualty. Other cases include logrolling on a side, e.g., to facilitate vomiting., or from side to side, for medical examination.

Logrolling is trading of favors, especially in politics.

Logrolling, log rolling, or log roll may also refer to:

• Logrolling (sport), sport involving balancing on submerged wooden logs
• A stage of log driving, literal rolling of logs
• Logrolling (medicine), moving a patient without flexing the patient's spine
• Pecan log roll, a confectionery
• Sideways roll in gymnastics