Definition of roll

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Roll (v.) A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as, a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon..

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Quoin :: Quoin (n.) To prevent casks from rolling.
Throstle :: Throstle (n.) A machine for spinning wool, cotton, etc., from the rove, consisting of a set of drawing rollers with bobbins and flyers, and differing from the mule in having the twisting apparatus stationary and the processes continuous; -- so called because it makes a singing noise..
Comptroler :: Comptroler (n.) A controller; a public officer whose duty it is to examine certify accounts.
Impracticable :: Impracticable (a.) Not to be overcome, presuaded, or controlled by any reasonable method; unmanageable; intractable; not capable of being easily dealt with; -- used in a general sense, as applied to a person or thing that is difficult to control or get along with..
Dead-pay :: Dead-pay (n.) Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls..
Counter-roll :: Counter-roll (n.) A duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll.
Voluble :: Voluble (a.) Easily rolling or turning; easily set in motion; apt to roll; rotating; as, voluble particles of matter..
Conscript :: Conscript (a.) Enrolled; written; registered.
Perambulate :: Perambulate (v. i.) To walk about; to ramble; to stroll; as, he perambulated in the park..
Furdle :: Furdle (v. t.) To draw up into a bundle; to roll up.
Undulating :: Undulating (a.) Rising and falling like waves; resembling wave form or motion; undulatory; rolling; wavy; as, an undulating medium; undulating ground..
Disenrolling :: Disenrolling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disenrol.
Inscrolled :: Inscrolled (imp. & p. p.) of Inscrol.
Tommy :: Tommy (n.) Bread, -- generally a penny roll; the supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance..
Spill :: Spill (n.) A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc..
Armadillo :: Armadillo (n.) A genus of small isopod Crustacea that can roll themselves into a ball.
Sea Legs :: Sea legs () Legs able to maintain their possessor upright in stormy weather at sea, that is, ability stand or walk steadily on deck when a vessel is rolling or pitching in a rough sea..
Escroll :: Escroll (n.) In modern heraldry, a similar ribbon on which the motto is inscribed..
Anthophore :: Anthophore (n.) The stipe when developed into an internode between calyx and corolla, as in the Pink family..
Melostemonous :: Melostemonous (a.) Having fever stamens than the parts of the corolla.
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