[f. LOG sb.1 + ROLLER.]
1. One who engages in political or literary ‘log-rolling.’
1864. Sala, in Daily Tel., 4 Aug., 5/2. A professional politician, convention organiser, and lobbyer and log-roller generally.
1887. N. & Q., 7th Ser. III. 120/1. Mr. Lang … shows what log-rollers were Hayward and Thackeray.
1900. Author, 1 Jan., 183. In these columns notes on books are given from reviews which carry weight, and are not, so far as can be learned, logrollers.
2. U.S. ‘A device in a saw-mill to convey logs from the log-deck or the log-way skids to the head-block’ (Knight).
1884. Knight, Dict. Mech., Suppl., Fig. 1629 Emery’s Log Roller.
3. One who practises the aquatic sport of ‘log-rolling.’
1893. Westm. Gaz., 16 May, 5/1. Canoes, shells, dug-outs, water-cycles, logs and log-rollers, and water-walkers, were present too in large numbers…. At the start one of the log-rollers managed to drop off his log.
