v. [Back-formation from LOG-ROLLING.] a. trans. To procure the passing of (a bill) by log-rolling. b. To approach (a politician) with the view of getting his political cooperation. c. intr. To engage in log-rolling.
1835. D. Crockett, Tour, 120. My people don’t like me to log-roll in their business, and vote away pre-emption rights to fellows in other states, that never kindle a fire on their lands.
1837. Ht. Martineau, Soc. Amer., II. 279. The method of ‘log-rolling’ bills through the legislature.
1865. Daily Tel., 14 April. The leading politicians who … log-roll the railway bills.
1876. Lowell, Among my Bks., Ser. II. 98. In the Greek epic, the gods … lobby and log-roll for their candidates.
1879. Times, 19 June, 11/3. To log-roll with everybody who was willing to work with him.
1888. Bryce, Amer. Commw., II. II. li. 286. Sometimes by express, more often by a tacit understanding, local bills are ‘log-rolled’ through the houses.
1896. Du Maurier, Martian (1898), 391. They did not log-roll Barty, whom they considered coarse and vulgar.
