Definition of rolling

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Rolling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rol.

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Logrolling :: Logrolling (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.
Goggle :: Goggle (a.) Full and rolling, or staring; -- said of the eyes..
Tumble :: Tumble (n.) Act of tumbling, or rolling over; a fall..
Bowl :: Bowl (n.) A ball of wood or other material used for rolling on a level surface in play; a ball of hard wood having one side heavier than the other, so as to give it a bias when rolled..
Siderography :: Siderography (n.) The art or practice of steel engraving; especially, the process, invented by Perkins, of multiplying facsimiles of an engraved steel plate by first rolling over it, when hardened, a soft steel cylinder, and then rolling the cylinder, when hardened, over a soft steel plate, which thus becomes a facsimile of the original. The process has been superseded by electrotypy..
Cam :: Cam (n.) A turning or sliding piece which, by the shape of its periphery or face, or a groove in its surface, imparts variable or intermittent motion to, or receives such motion from, a rod, lever, or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it..
Felt :: Felt (n.) A cloth or stuff made of matted fibers of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving..
Roll :: Roll (n.) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling; as, a river rolls its waters to the ocean..
Volutation :: Volutation (n.) A rolling of a body; a wallowing.
Slip :: Slip (n.) To move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling, or stepping; to slide; to glide..
Rocking :: Rocking (a.) Having a swaying, rolling, or back-and-forth movement; used for rocking..
Rolling-pin :: Rolling-pin (n.) A cylindrical piece of wood or other material, with which paste or dough may be rolled out and reduced to a proper thickness..
Undulating :: Undulating (a.) Rising and falling like waves; resembling wave form or motion; undulatory; rolling; wavy; as, an undulating medium; undulating ground..
Tundra :: Tundra (n.) A rolling, marshy, mossy plain of Northern Siberia..
Controller :: Controller (n.) An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged..
Vagabond :: Vagabond (a.) Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious.
Jigger :: "Jigger (n.) A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather; same as Jack, 4 (i)..
Bloom :: Bloom (n.) A large bar of steel formed directly from an ingot by hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further working..
Fagot :: Fagot (n.) A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a pile.
Roll :: Roll (v. i.) 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..
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