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- English Word Roll Definition To fall or tumble; -- with over; as, a stream rolls over a precipice.
- English Word Roll Definition To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution; as, the rolling year; ages roll away.
- English Word Roll Definition To turn; to move circularly.
- English Word Roll Definition To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
- English Word Roll Definition To incline first to one side, then to the other; to rock; as, there is a great difference in ships about rolling; in a general semse, to be tossed about.
- English Word Roll Definition To turn over, or from side to side, while lying down; to wallow; as, a horse rolls.
- English Word Roll Definition To spread under a roller or rolling-pin; as, the paste rolls well.
- English Word Roll Definition To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear.
- English Word Roll Definition To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise; as, the thunder rolls.
- English Word Roll Definition The act of rolling, or state of being rolled; as, the roll of a ball; the roll of waves.
- English Word Roll Definition That which rolls; a roller.
- English Word Roll Definition A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
- English Word Roll Definition One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill; as, to pass rails through the rolls.
- English Word Roll Definition That which is rolled up; as, a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.
- English Word Roll Definition A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
- English Word Roll Definition Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list.
- English Word Roll Definition A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as, a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon.
- English Word Roll Definition A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
- English Word Roll Definition A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself.
- English Word Roll Definition The oscillating movement of a vessel from side to side, in sea way, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching.
- English Word Roll Definition A heavy, reverberatory sound; as, the roll of cannon, or of thunder.
- English Word Roll Definition The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
- English Word Roll Definition Part; office; duty; role.
- English Word Rollable Definition Capable of being rolled.
- English Word Rolled Definition of Roll
- English Word Roller Definition One who, or that which, rolls; especially, a cylinder, sometimes grooved, of wood, stone, metal, etc., used in husbandry and the arts.
- English Word Roller Definition A bandage; a fillet; properly, a long and broad bandage used in surgery.
- English Word Roller Definition One of series of long, heavy waves which roll in upon a coast, sometimes in calm weather.
- English Word Roller Definition A long, belt-formed towel, to be suspended on a rolling cylinder; -- called also roller towel.
- English Word Roller Definition A cylinder coated with a composition made principally of glue and molassess, with which forms of type are inked previously to taking an impression from them.