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Definition of Logrollings
1. logrolling [n] - See also: logrolling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Logrollings
Literary usage of Logrollings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln by Abraham Lincoln, Marion Mills Miller, Henry Clay Whitney (1907)
"The early Western pioneers attended their "logrollings" and "shindigs," gun on
shoulder, and the animus of shooting Indians in their mind. ..."
2. Dixie; Or, Southern Scenes and Sketches by Julian Ralph (1895)
"I wish there was room for descriptions of their dances, their old-fashioned
shooting-matches and logrollings, and of that queerest of all sports, ..."
3. Principles of Rural Economics by Thomas Nixon Carver (1911)
"But their mutual helpfulness, though less proverbial, is attested by their
logrollings, their house raisings, their husking bees, and the like, ..."
4. A History of Rockbridge County, Virginia by Oren Frederic Morton (1920)
"Besides the husking frolic, there were logrollings, singing schools, shooting
matches, and hunting with hounds. Christmas was made much of. ..."
5. The Annals of Newberry: In Two Parts by John Belton O'Neall, John Abney Chapman (1892)
"He was the first man that refused to furnish whiskey at his logrollings, having
seen evil grow out of it. And when some of his invited neighbors told him ..."
6. Abraham Lincoln: A History by John George Nicolay, John Hay (1890)
"An habitual drunkard was more welcome at ''raisings " and "logrollings" than a
known faineant. The man who did not do a man's share where work was to be ..."
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