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logroll en · NOUN

Back-formation from logrolling.

A method of moving a patient, rolling them onto their side, and later onto a transport method such as a tarp, spineboard, or stretcher.

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logrolls	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Back-formation from logrolling.

(figuratively, intransitive) To exchange favours, especially political favours.
(US, figuratively, transitive) To combine legislative items, either or both of which might fail on its own, into a single bill that is more likely to pass.
- Republicans defeated Democratic efforts to logroll hate crimes legislation into the defense appropriations bill.
To roll a log in a body of water, while balancing on it; to birl.
- The competitors come from as far away as New Zealand and Spain to the Lumberjack Bowl in Hayward--formerly a holding pond for Weyerhauser's North Wisconsin Logging Company--to pole climb, speed saw, logroll, and chop with all their might. 2002 May 31, Jeffrey Felshman, “Calendar”, in Chicago Reader:
To move like rolling logs.
- Her dancers may logroll over each other or curl up together, but they never get personal. 1999 January 22, Laura Molzahn, “Chicago's Next Dance Festival”, in Chicago Reader:
(transitive) To safely move (a body) in an emergency (medical) situation, tilting them up, then laying them on a transport surface.

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logrolling	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
logrolled	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
logrolled	Tense=Past	lexicographic
logrolls	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres	lexicographic