LOGROLLING

birling, logrolling

(noun) rotating a log rapidly in the water (as a competitive sport)

logrolling

(noun) act of exchanging favors for mutual gain; especially trading of influence or votes among legislators to gain passage of certain projects

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

logrolling (countable and uncountable, plural logrollings)

(countable, US) The rolling of logs from one place to another; an occasion when people meet to help each other roll logs.

(uncountable, US, sports) A sport in which two people balance on a log floating in a body of water, each one aiming to cause the opponent to fall off by rolling or kicking the log.

(uncountable, US politics, figuratively) 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.

(uncountable, US, figuratively) Mutual recommendation of friends' or colleagues' services or products, such as book recommendations in literary reviews.

Verb

logrolling

present participle of logroll.

Source: Wiktionary

Log"roll`ing, n.

1. (Logging)

Definition: 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 to assist another in consideration of receiving assistance in return; -- sometimes used of a disreputable mode of accomplishing political schemes or ends. [Cant, U.S.]