What's the difference between birling and logrolling?

Birling


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Logrolling


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) 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.

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  • (1) The logroll maneuver presented the greatest possibility for movement of the spine at the unstable thoracolumbar segment.
  • (2) Or be a lumberjack for the day with world champion Darren Hudson, who runs Wild Axe camps teaching skills like logrolling, tree climbing and axe throwing (adults $90, youths $25-$50).

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