[
UK
/ɹˈəʊlɐ/
]
[ US /ˈɹoʊɫɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈɹoʊɫɝ/ ]
NOUN
- pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground
- a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore
- a grounder that rolls along the infield
- a cylinder that revolves
- a small wheel without spokes (as on a roller skate)
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a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it
a woman with her head full of curlers is not a pretty sight - Old World bird that tumbles or rolls in flight; related to kingfishers
How To Use roller In A Sentence
- The Fat Controller and I were back inside the bolt when it arrived from the bonded warehouse at Felixstowe.
- Jake changes overnight from drippy layabout to high roller.
- Most fault conditions will set a ABS fault code in the CAB (controller anti-lock brake), which can be retrieved to aid in fault diagnosis.
- Through the result of experiment, we observe that this controller can assure spot weld quality.
- The shamal comes in quickly and silently, like an ocher paint roller, and can blow for several days straight, subsiding slightly at night when the air is cooler. Peace Meals
- Military air traffic controllers were called in to do the job. Times, Sunday Times
- By that definition, Darren, absolutely anyone with a website must be a troller too.
- Why do men listen with more strict attention to an inflammatory harangue, that may not be argumentative, than to a prosaical discourse, that is, to an anecdote than to a prayer, to an extravaganza than to a lecture, or derive more pleasure from pantomimic drollery than from Hamlet, or hearing an opera they do not understand than from reading an essay they do. A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling.
- Of course the 'nester' or 'punkin roller,' as we contemptuously called the small farmer, began sifting in here and there in spite of our guns, but he was only a mosquito bite in comparison with the trouble which our cow-punchers stirred up. Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West
- Dey allowed de patterollers to snoop around an 'whup de slaves, mother said dey stripped some of de slaves naked an' whupped 'em. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1
