To estimate betting odds.
To encumber with a handicap in any contest.
To place at disadvantage.
Something that prevents, hampers, or hinders.
An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race (or other contest of skill) to the competitor possessing disadvantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success.
The disadvantage itself, in particular physical or mental disadvantages of people.
A race or similar contest in which there is an allowance of time, distance, weight, or other advantage, to equalize the chances of the competitors.
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.