rolledadj.

?1510 Treatyse Galaunt (de Worde) sig. Aiv Beholde the rolled hodes stuffed with flockes.

1688 W. Canning Gesta Grayorum 30 No Knight of this Order, in walking the Streets, or other places of Resort, shall bear his Hands in his Pockets of his great rolled Hose.

1806 La Belle Assemblée Dec. 555 The cap à-la-rustique, formed of alternate waves of pink and white velvet, finished at the edge with a rolled band of the same.

1819 M. Edgeworth Let. ?10 Mar. (1971) 181 All the fashionable trimmings are of that rolled sort of flounces.

1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt III. xlvi. 221 The grandeur of barbaric forms—when rolled collars were not yet conceived.

1880 L. S. Floyer Plain Hints Examiners Needlework 125 Few..teachers appear to know the difference between ‘whipping’ and ‘rolled hem’.

1910 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 420/2 The younger generation adopted a round pith hat with a rolled edge of felt.

1928 Daily Mail 3 Aug. 10/4 Members of the audience looked twice before they could..appreciate the fact that she had rolled stockings.

1964 McCall's Sewing in Colour ii. 30/1 Lingerie hem, a rolled hem that is caught with two overcast stitches at intervals of ¹/ ₈ to ³/ ₈ inch gathering it in puffs.

2005 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 7 Dec. 2 You get traditional tailoring with softly rolled lapels, four button cuffs and genuine horn buttons.

1606 T. Morton Full Satisfaction conc. Double Romish Iniquitie i. xvi. 50 Seeing a lying fame (like a rowled snowball) the further it moueth the more increaseth in her falshood.

1616 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor (rev. ed.) Prol. in Wks. I. 5 Nor [is] roul'd bullet heard To say, it thunders.

1842 United Service Mag. Nov. 409 Like a rolled snowball, our party, which at first numbered but four, increased to about twenty.

1920 Amer. Physical Educ. Rev. Nov. 352 When the rolled ball hits the triggers, which are in the vertical position, the triggers swing under the front cross piece.

1953 Times 26 June 10/1 Cowan, taking a rolled pass from Bunyan, tried to beat Vernon..on the wing.

2007 Jrnl. Health, Physical Educ., Recreation & Dance Aug. 41/2 Dribble a ball while moving and changing hands; serve a tennis ball to the desired place on the receiver's court; kick a rolled ball in the desired direction.

1776 R. E. Raspe tr. J. J. Ferber Trav. Italy xiii. 190 There are some hills of rolled pebbles, ferruminated as a coarse breccia, and blunted by rolling on the ancient shore.

1824 W. H. Keating Narr. Exped. St. Peter's River I. ii. 61 The stones, of which the wall was built, are all rolled, mostly granitic.

1845 J. Phillips & C. G. B. Daubeny Geol. in Encycl. Metrop. VI. 545/1 Sometimes it..contains rolled and broken pieces of crystallized felspar.

1919 N.Z. Jrnl. Sci. & Technol. 2 116 The ‘black Maoris’ of the Otago gold-diggers consist in most cases of rolled pebbles formed of a mixture of iron and manganese oxides.

1955 R. M. Pearl How to know Minerals & Rocks 160 Owing to its hardness, spinel is found as rolled pebbles in placer sand in the gem fields of Ceylon and Burma.

1992 A. Kurzweil Case of Curiosities iv. 31 The accountant..then submitted the paver's estimates on necessary road repairs, itemizing each cost, including the tolls for the transport of the rolled stone.

1852 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 10 We have an illustration of the lh in the Welsh ll; and perhaps of the rh in the Greek ρ; the double, or rolled, r may represent it in any language.

1909 D. Jones Pronunc. of Eng. 25 There are no infallible rules for learning to pronounce the rolled r.

1967 J. D. O'Connor Better Eng. Pronunc. iii. 78 Sometimes they [sc. foreign learners] use a rolled sound in which the tip of the tongue flaps very quickly several times against the alveolar ridge..or the uvula taps against the back of the tongue in a similar way.

2002 Spectator (Nexis) 9 Nov. 97 I suspect Andrew Marr had his rolled 'r's ironed out at public school.

1894 L. A. Russell Embellishments Music 20 Appoggiatura, with rolled chord.

1931 Music Supervisor's Jrnl. 17 72/3 There are seventeen numbers for solo piano and three short duets for the intermediate grade, developing use of the entire keyboard, after-beat, rolled chords, [etc.].

1988 Early Music 16 613 The harmonically powerful rolled chords of the prelude..are ideally poised in Woolley's well-sustained performance.

1995 J. L. Witzleben ‘Silk & Bamboo’ Music in Shanghai iii. 47 These four rolled notes are more or less evenly divided over the duration indicated in the notation.

2005 Jrnl. Musicol. 22 480 A single rolled chord that condenses the arpeggiated motion of the song's accompaniment, is tinged with painful memories.

1928 San Antonio (Texas) Express 26 Oct. 7/1 (advt.) Streets paved with rolled asphalt over 8-inch rock base.

1954 Highway Engin. Terms (B.S.I.) 32 Clinker asphalt, a wearing course consisting of rolled asphalt in which the principal aggregate is clinker.

1965 Jrnl. Water Pollution Control Federation 37 684/1 The sub-base was followed by 2½ in. (6.3 cm) of hot-rolled asphalt in one layer.

2005 Independent (Nexis) 5 July 29 Al fresco in Manhattan usually means one thing, a roof top with perilous parapets and rolled asphalt that turns sticky underfoot under Manhattan's monsoon sun.

1962 Austral. Women's Weekly 18 July 36/4 (caption) Centre numbers are shaped from a thin strip of rolled fondant, dried then painted.

1979 N.Y. Times 12 Sept. c 6/4 [She] teaches basic cake decorating techniques: butter creams and frostings;..figure piping; rolled fondant and spun sugar.

2015 Orange County (Calif.) Reg. (Nexis) 3 July The cake is not made of dough and frosting, but is a 4-by-4-foot Styrofoam tower covered in rolled fondant.

1822 Archæologia Æliana 1 5 The kind of rolled gold, which most resembled that of which the beads of Chesthope cairn were made, was called Prænestina bractea at Rome, form an image of fortune being overlaid with it at Præneste.

1898 Westm. Gaz. 17 Nov. 2/1 Here's a lovely rolled gold watch.

1975 Country Life 20 Mar. 747/1 Rolled gold ballpoint pen.

2002 J. H. Spring Educating Consumer-citizen (2003) vi. 166 The teacher gave the girl a Parker Pen in white rolled gold.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xvi. 102/1 A Rouled Hill, is a great banke of earth made betwixt the face of a Bulwork and the besiegers; which being cast with shovels longer then ordinary, the lower part of this heap ouer the vpper, this hill is turned ouer and ouer, and is rouled on by degrees to fill the ditch.

1870 Leeds Mercury 17 Nov. 1/5 (advt.) Hen Corn, Indian Corn, Locust Meal, Linseed Chaff, Rolled Oats, Bran, Sharps, Hay and Straw, Cattle Food, at Dickinson's.

1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 29 Oct. 8/1 (advt.) Robin Hood Rolled Oats, large drum 24¢.

1960 A. E. Bender Dict. Nutrition & Food Technol. 87/2 Rolled oats—crushed by rolling and partially pre-cooked.

2002 Baker's Catal. Jan. 10/2 You can make a good approximation [of oat flour] by using a blender or food processor to finely grind 1 cup of rolled oats.

1873 Symons's Monthly Meteorol. Mag. Feb. 59 Trees brought down by the torrent were strewn in all directions, many of them buried deep in the rolled down boulders and gravel.

1964 Jrnl. Marketing 28 No. 2. 82/1 Photographing the scenery through the rolled-down window of an automobile.

1972 J. Gores Dead Skip (1973) vii. 43 The air coming in through the rolled-down window..was wet and heavy.

2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 28 Oct. c18/3 A canteen-toting G.I. Jane look-alike who flaunts acres of flesh beneath her skimpy camouflage T-shirt, hot pants and rolled-down hose.

1832 W. Roxburgh et al. Flora Indica (new ed.) III. xiv. 113 [Seeds] are attached to the rolled-in edges of the valves of the capsule, as in the germ.

1883 T. H. Huxley & H. N. Martin Course Elem. Biol. 95 The interval between the retracted disc and the rolled-in peristome.

1983 H. G. Boardman & W. D. Montgomery Nat. Gas Markets after Deregulation vi. 70/2 As differences in the cost of gas became more pronounced, so too did the inefficiency of rolled-in pricing.

2007 Asphalt Contractor (Nexis) June 16 One of the problems we have is the old rolled-in rumble strip on the right shoulder is coming apart.

1839 J. Cole Pop. Biogr. Northants. I. i. 25 The pastry art..was..imparted in the management of the supposed elaborately rolled out dough.

1892 T. F. Garrett & W. A. Rawson Encycl. Pract. Cookery I. vii. 481/1 Line a dozen small Croustade-moulds with the rolled-out paste.

1912 L. P. Gratacap Pop. Guide Minerals 108 Gold will often be noted in sheets like rolled out metal.

2004 G. Woodward I'll go to Bed at Noon viii. 152 He was assembling his doves, cut from rolled-out clay.