A state where the sovereign constituent units delegate their authority to the centre. As opposed to a federation, where the central and regional governments are each equal and sovereign in their own sphere.
Specifically, an instance of a decentralized governing structure among the indigenous peoples of North America.
An alliance.
The act of balancing on a log floating on a river to guide it downstream, often involving rolling it using one's feet; birling.
Mutual recommendation of friends' or colleagues' services or products, such as book recommendations in literary reviews.
The rolling of logs from one place to another; an occasion when people meet to help each other roll logs.
A concerted effort to push forward mutually advantageous legislative agendas by combining two items, either or both of which might fail on its own, into a single bill that is more likely to pass.
A sport in which two people balance on a log floating in a body of water, each one aiming to cause the opponent to fall off by rolling or kicking the log.