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LOG-ROLLER

Specialty Definition: LOG-ROLLER

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Log-roller (A). One engaged in log-rolling, that is (metaphorically) in furthering another's schemes or fads; persons who laud a friend to promote the sale of his books, etc. The allusion is to neighbours who assist a new settler to roll away the logs of his "clearing."
"The members [of Congress] ... make a compact by which each aids the other. This is log-rolling."- Bryce: Commonwealth, vol. ii. part iii. chap. lxvii. page 125 (1889). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: LOG-ROLLER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: logroller.

Words within the letters "e-g-l-l-l-o-o-r-r"

-2 letters: logroll.

-3 letters: loller, reroll, roller.

-4 letters: ogler, roger.

-5 letters: ergo, goer, gore, loge, logo, loll, lore, ogle, ogre, oleo, orle, role, roll.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-l-l-l-o-o-r-r"
 

+1 letter: logrollers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: LOG-ROLLER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 4F 47 2D 52 4F 4C 4C 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01001111 01000111 00101101 01010010 01001111 01001100 01001100 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#79 &#71 &#45 &#82 &#79 &#76 &#76 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 004F 0047 002D 0052 004F 004C 004C 0045 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

46494115524946463952

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