rollern.1
/ˈrəʊlə/, U.S. /ˈroʊlər/ I. Something used for rolling.† 8. A metal eye at the end of the trace (trace n.2 1), by which it can be attached to the roller bolt of a carriage's splinter bar. Obsolete. rare.
1. One of a number of (usually large) cylinders of wood or other hard material, sometimes attached to a framework, over which a heavy object can be passed.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > roller
roller1295
rollc1425
pinch roll1953
1295 in Antiquaries Jrnl. (1927) 7 433 (MED) Item, in xii portitoribus et bordas et rolleres per i diem.
a1450 ( tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) f. 99v (MED) Loke also þou haue grete wheles made & framed of grene tymber, or elles grete and huge peces wel rounded of tree þat me calleth rolleres, þe whiche & þei ben sodeynly lete slippe or slide, þei fereþ & frayeth boþe hors & man.
1540 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1907) VII. 353 vj plankis to be rollaris in the schippis under the artalȝery, and for uthir akin tymmer to be rollaris to the small munitioun.
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Palangæ,..rollers to conueigh thinges of great weight.
1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 72 What mightie Rowlers, and what massie Cars Could bring so far so many monstrous Quars?
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 24 They have a kind of sled made of four pieces of Timber in square; two of which serve for an Axle-tree to two great rowlers.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 147 I went to the Woods, and cut Levers and Rollers.
1783 Hull Gaol Act 24 Any stall, shop, or shed..that shall be moved upon wheels or rollers.
1837 W. B. Adams Eng. Pleasure Carriages Introd. 6 This was doubtless the origin of rollers or round logs of wood, which are placed under heavy trees or beams in order to move them over the surface of the earth.
1884 W. H. Greenwood Steel & Iron 338 The rail..is carried along upon a series of five rollers..to a circular saw.
1920 J. Mander Story N.Z. River xxi. 273 Halved and quartered, it [sc. a log] was then levered..on to greased rollers.
1993 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 10 Oct. 15 A suitcase strap got caught in the rollers of the new $65 million computerized luggage conveyer system.
2005 M. Lewycka Short Hist. Tractors in Ukrainian vii. 68 You see in prehistoric times, great stones were moved on wooden rollers made out of tree trunks.
2. A rolling pin.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > [noun] > roll of pastry
rollera1425
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > baker's equipment > rolling-pin
rollera1425
rolling pin1563
paste roller1648
paste-pin1752
pin1822
a1425 (a1399) Forme of Cury (BL Add.) 50 in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler Curye on Inglysch (1985) 108 (MED) Take flour of payndemayn and make þerof past with water, and make þerof thynne foyles as paper with a roller.
a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 40 (MED) Take floure of payndemayn, and make þy past With water, þer of þy fele [read fole] þou make With a roller, and drye hit.
1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. v. ix. 1127 These haue a cudgell like vnto a Pastlers rowler, which they tosse high and low as it were a ball in the Ayre, strange to behold.
1698 A. Tooke tr. F. Pomey Pantheon (ed. 2) v. iii. v. 322 Neither the Trees, says S. Austin, are cut down without an Ax, nor Bread made without a Roller.
1779 in Manch. & Liverpool Museum I. 28 With the assistance of a wooden roller, reduce them [sc. potatoes] into a paste.
1882 Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (new ed.) Rower, a roller for flattening dough;..West of S.
1908 M. R. L. Sharpe Golden Rule Cookbk. 293 It should then be rolled lightly with a roller to the thickness of three quarters of an inch.
2007 Roanoke (Va.) Times (Nexis) 25 Feb. b1 She sat on a stool before a big metal table,..and used a roller to smooth out a piece of dough.
3.
a. A cylinder made of wood, metal, or other hard material, revolving on pivots or a fixed axis, and used for lessening the friction of anything passed over or around it; (also) a rounded piece of wood around which a towel is looped.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > other means of conveyance > [noun] > plank, roller, or rail on which something is slid
roller1434
slider1582
skid1782
jack roller1843
ways1855
1434 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 102 (MED) Y bequethe my roller for a towell to Margery Bokeler.
1563–4 in H. J. F. Swayne Churchwardens' Accts. Sarum (1896) 110 A roler to save ye rope of ye clock from fretyng, vj d.
1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. x. 186 Guiding the String from the Pole to the Work by throwing it over a Rowler, moving on two Iron Center-pins.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Roller, a cylindrical piece of timber, fixed..so as to revolve about an axis. It is used to prevent the cables, hausers, &c. from being chafed.
1780 J. Howard State Prisons Eng. & Wales (ed. 2) 331 They had every day a clean towel hung on a roller.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 324 The pin is relieved of friction by three rollers in the coak, placed equilaterally.
1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars vi. 298 The refinement of hanging a towel on a roller does not appear to have been thought of.
1943 D. Baker Trio i. 55 She jerked a paper towel off the roller and did a careful job of drying.
2005 P. Morgan Carbon Fibers & Composites 404 Passing the wet fiber over a roller or guide prior to drying will act as a metering device.
b. The revolvable drum or barrel of a winch or windlass.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > winch or capstan > drum or barrel of
barrel?1518
roller1609
turn-tree1653
turn-beam1679
tympanum1704
capstan-barrel1706
rope barrel1797
rope roll1811
1609 Hilderstoun Silver Mines I. f. 118v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Rollar Ane mast of firre to be rowaris to the said windesis.
1650 E. Williams Virginia 77 An Explication of the Saw-mill... When a peece is cut, then let one with a Lever turne a Rowler, wherto shall be fastned a strong Cord which shall bring backe the sayd peece of wood, and lift again the weights.
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 54 Upon that square is fitted a round Wooden-Rowler or Barrel.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Windlass The Axis or Roller goes thro' two of the Pieces, and turns in them.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2779/2 This is in cases where the windlass-roller is not solid, but consists of ratchet-heads [etc.].
1922 Pop. Mech. June 956/1 The windlass is turned by a rod, passed through a hole in the roller.
2007 ‘L. Burton’ House of Dark Delights v. 112 The middle roller rotated with a grinding creak, drawing the ropes..somewhat tighter.
4.
a. A heavy cylinder of wood, stone, or (now usually) metal, fitted in a frame with shafts or a handle, used for flattening and smoothing the ground, crushing clods of earth, etc. Also figurative. Cf. steamroller n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > machine for breaking clods
rollerc1487
roll1558
clod-crusher1842
c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica i. 50 Eyther they muste dryue in shepe vpon the grounde to trede doun the seed that is sowen, or ellis they muste stablysshe the grounde with a rollar and stryke away the erthe.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 263/2 Rollar or rammer of husbandrie.
1568 T. Hill Proffitable Arte Gardening (rev. ed.) ii. xxix. f. 102v When the seedes be sowen, & couered with earthe, then to be pressed downe wyth a Roller.
1623 J. Taylor Wks. ii. 241/1 Their exercise is priuately..to rowle the great rowler in the alleies of their garden.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 57 Let the weighty Rowler run the round, To smooth the Surface of th' unequal Ground. View more context for this quotation
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 17 Where Meadows are flooded,..roll them with a large Barley Roller.
1787 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Norfolk I. 145 The roller..is never used in Norfolk for the purpose of compression.
1855 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Kitchen Garden 17 A roller, for gravel-walks and grass.
1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 212 There was no heavy roller of public opinion to flatten all character.
1899 H. R. Haggard Farmer's Year 145 One of the oldest and quietest horses..was dragging the wooden roller.
1962 O. Pryor Australia's Little Cornwall 180 The larger mallees were cut off at ground level with an axe, and the smaller stuff was left standing, ready to be broken down by a four-horse team, dragging a heavy roller made from the shell of an old Cornish boiler.
2005 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Oct. 77/2 To improve gravel roads at minimal cost, local communities may spray them with a film of oily asphalt, spread small, chipped gravel on top, then run a roller over it.
b. A rotating cylinder used, usually as one of a pair, for pressing, crushing, or rolling something, for forming metal or other material into bars or sheets, or for gripping and moving paper, fabric, film, etc.feed, pinch, pressing roller, etc.: see the first element.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > types of tools generally > [noun] > for performing specific processes
drawerc1400
blocker1407
roller1728
screena1764
scrieve iron1785
notcher1858
opener1874
truer1875
crimper1876
sheller1883
stroker1884
1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 89 The manner of grinding them, is this, the Horses and Cattle being put to their tackle: they go about, and by their force turne (by the sweeps) the middle roller; which being Cog'd to the other two, at both ends, turne them about.
1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands 195 They are made up into bundles, and carry'd to the Mills to be there press'd and squeez'd between two rollers, turning one upon the other.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Roll Tis also between two Rollers that the Waves are given to Silks, Mohairs, and other Stuffs proper to be tabied.
c1762–4 B. Franklin Lett. (1966) X. 184 It is what they call tin-foil, or leaf-tin, being tin mill'd between rollers.
1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xix. 232 The corn is drawn along by two revolving rollers.
1847 London Jrnl. Arts, Sci., & Manuf. 31 448 Grinding the native rubber to a pasty mass, and reducing it to thin sheets between a succession of heated rollers.
1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 385/2 Finally, the leather is rolled and compressed on a..wooden bed by a heavy hand roller.
1908 M. L. Bowman & B. W. Crossley Corn xiv. 335 The process of manufacturing consists, first, in running the shelled corn between rollers so that it is cracked open.
1959 W. S. Sharps Dict. Cinematogr. 84 The motor-controlled spindle surmounted by a roller..grips the tape and draws it past the sound head.
1999 C. Mendelson Home Comforts xv. 226/1 Crêpe can be produced..by passing fabric between specially engraved rollers.
c. Printing. A cylinder for applying ink to a surface prior to printing from it, or for transferring ink to another cylinder. Cf. ink-roller n. at ink n.1 Compounds 3 and inking-roller n. at inking n. Compounds.dip, mouse, printing, supply roller, etc.: see the first element.
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society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > ink-roller
roller1662
composition roller1825
ink-roller1825
rider1878
waver1882
inker1884
ink-cylinder1894
1662 W. Faithorne Art of Graveing & Etching xx. 28 The plate being thus heated, take the varnish cover'd as aforesaid, and applying it by the end of the roller, spread it upon the plate while it is hot, carrying it lightly over from one side to the other.
1772 Brit. Patent 1007 (1856) 4 The top printing roller and iron levers must then be raised up that the cloth may be laid even betwixt the top and middle roller.
1790 Brit. Patent 1748 (1856) 6 The returning motion of the table carries the letter again under the roller B, which again inks it, and the process of printing another sheet goes on as before... B is the inking roller.
1824 J. Johnson Typographia II. xv. 553 He likewise makes Inking Machines, with iron cylinders, for feeding the roller with ink.
1897 C. F. S. Rothwell Printing of Textile Fabrics i. 34 Where it is found that one colour has a tendency to mark off on to the next roller, and has a modifying effect on the shade, a plain copper roller is placed between the two rollers, working in..gum water.
1923 Pop. Mech. July 44/1 Rollers for printing presses must be removed from time to time for cleaning.
1996 A. Griffiths Prints & Printmaking (ed. 2) 34 Intaglio is a more expensive printing process than relief, where inking can be simply done with a dabber or roller.
d. A cylinder on a typewriter which serves to hold and move the paper; = platen n. 3b.
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society > communication > printing > typing > typewriter > [noun] > platen
roller1874
platen1890
1874 Hall's Jrnl. Health Nov. 450/2 The type-writer... There is a treadle, but it is used only to throw back, at the end of each line, a roller holding the paper on it.
1888 J. Harrison Man. Remington Standard Typewriter 18 On top of the typewriter are two rollers. The larger one is covered with hardened india-rubber, the smaller is of wood.
1959 Sears, Roebuck Catal. Spring–Summer 837/2 You can't buy a better portable [typewriter]... Removable roller for easy, thorough cleaning.
1980 J. Thomson Alibi in Time vi. 72 On the front stood a typewriter, a half-completed page still in the roller.
2008 E. Feldman Scottsboro xviii. 222 The sound of typewriter keys striking the roller..had awakened me that morning.
e. A semi-cylindrical block of wood or metal with a strip of blotting paper attached to the curved side, used to blot areas of excess ink. Also roller blotter. Now rare.
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society > communication > writing > writing materials > other writing equipment > [noun] > materials for blotting
blotting-paper1519
pin-dust1561
blotter1591
blotting-book1598
writing dust1646
writing sand1656
sucking-papera1665
pounce1704
sand1753
blotting-pad1857
blotting1872
roller1875
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1963/1 Roller,..a rolling blotter.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 28 Jan. 8/1 At present diplomatists invariably use the roller blotter for important documents. This, owing to its palimpsest character, is quite undecipherable.
1965 F. Carmichael Any Number can Die 86 Properties..Scissors, roller type blotter on desk.
f. A revolving cylinder, usually of absorbent material, attached to a handle and used to apply paint, wallpaper, etc., to a flat surface. Cf. paint roller n. at paint n. Compounds 2.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > decorating equipment > [noun] > roller
roller1929
1929 Pop. Mech. Dec. 1048/2 The roller is simply run in the depression and the paint is pressed on.
1959 Listener 12 Feb. 311/1 I am often asked whether it is better to use a brush or a roller for painting.
1975 Times 28 Aug. 5/1 Embossed wallpapers..can be..applied in different manners (by roller, or by sponge..are just two of them).
2001 Pract. Householder Aug. 7/2 Two versions are available—one with a hard roller for flat wallpapers, and one with a soft roller for textured papers.
5. A cylindrical piece of wood or other hard material; esp. one on which cloth, paper, or other material is wrapped or wound up.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > cylinder > [noun] > cylindrical object
rundle1565
roller1567
roundel1585
cylinder1641
bolea1651
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 18 Ther is another..which hath ye figure of a narrow Rowler.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xxviii. 178 To fit the colt for the saddle, the good rider must first put vpon his head a halter with a rouler of woode.
1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) ii. 89 The long slender Worms,..that breed between the Skin and Flesh..are generally twisted out upon Sticks or Rowlers.
1753 Catal. Maps, Prints, Copy-bks., &c 26 This map, neatly coloured and pasted on cloth, with a roller and ledge, is both a useful and handsome ornament for a hall.
1760 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. IV. 2845/2 A skin of a very thin parchment was wrapped round the roller, and thereon was the matter written.
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. Roller,..a long piece of wood which is rounded and made taper to suit the regulated size of a military tail.
1886 T. Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge II. xiv. 189 A deal wand—probably the roller from a piece of calico.
1951 Rev. Textile Progress 2 329 Blowing..does not yield such good results as potting, i.e., winding the cloth on a roller and heating it in water at about 160°F. for periods varying from a few hours to four days.
1999 D. H. Shively & W. H. McCullough Cambr. Hist. Japan II. vi. 413 The horizontal scrolls were made of sheets of paper pasted together and attached to a mounting at one end and a roller at the other.
6. † b. A revolving cylinder in a musical box. Obsolete. rare.
a. Music. A long horizontal wooden rod or metal tube in an organ, attached at each end to a tracker, and revolving at ninety degrees when a key is pressed, causing the pallet to open for the relevant pipe or pipes. Recorded earliest in roller board n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > parts conveying action
roller1632
roller board1632
sticker1756
tracker1843
pricker1852
trace1852
button1855
trundle1876
fan1880
square1880
trace-rod1880
1632 in J. Crosse York Mus. Festiv. (1825) App. 2 Item the rowler board carriages and keyes, xx li.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 488/1 It pulls down the arm b, by the wire d, which turns about the roller s with the arm a.
1840 Penny Cycl. XVI. 492/2 Figure 3 is a perspective view of a roller~board; AAA, the board on which the rollers are fixed.
1881 W. E. Dickson Pract. Organ-building viii. 96 Rollers are in sets, like backfalls and squares, and are arranged symmetrically on a board called a roller-board.
1903 C. F. A. Williams Story of Organ 268 (Gloss.) Rollerboard, a board on which are mounted a series of iron or wooden rollers of varying length, having arms projecting at right angles about an inch long at each end.
1921 Musical Times 61 46/1 In the case of this instrument, the india-rubber covered roller is placed just above, and runs the full length of, the pedal board.
2006 L. A. Dobson et al. in D. E. Bush & R. Kassel Organ 7/1 The tracker that pulls down the roller connects at approximately the midlength of the key.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > musical box > [noun] > part of
key1823
roller1875
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1963/1 Roller,..the studded barrel of the musical box or chime-ringing machine.
7.
a. A small wheel that rotates on an axle; a short cylinder serving as a wheel.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > attached to shaft
fly1648
roller1734
flyer1781
fly-wheel1784
1734 J. T. Desaguliers Course Exper. Philos. I. 426 Instead of the Pinion F, I have a small Roller of Steel truly round..and filed on the Surface in the Direction of its Axis, so that it may be consider'd as a little Wheel with an infinite Number of Teeth.
1763 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. (ed. 2) I. 322/2 Block House, a kind of wooden fort or battery, either mounted on rollers, or on a vessel.
1792 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry (1804) II. iv. i. 145 He set his foot on the spur of a horse-jockey; which, in this new country, from the prick of the rowler, he took for a rattle snake.
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. Roller, a small wheel placed at the foot of the hammer of a gun, or pistol lock, in order to lessen the friction of it against the hammer.
1874 H. E. Vandervell & T. M. Witham Syst. Figure-skating (ed. 2) iv. 63 There have been many attempts to imitate skating by means of small rollers or wheels attached to the feet.
1919 Pop. Sci. Monthly Sept. 30/1 It is simply a large-sized horse mounted on rollers.
1946 V. N. Wood Metall. Materials i. 32 The body of the furnace is mounted on four rollers which enable it to be rotated at a continuous low speed.
1999 Sarasota (Florida) Herald-Tribune (Nexis) 29 Sept. 1 b During class changes, dozens of students are scurrying about with their wheeled suitcases behind them, the rollers clicking along the pavement.
b. A type of broad wagon wheel. rare.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > wheel > of specific type or position
cartwheelc1386
truckle1459
trundle1564
clog-wheel1575
trindle1594
coach-wheel1647
roulette1659
roller1763
horizontal wheel1794
castora1800
castor-wheel1805
artillery wheel1834
training wheel1848
trailing wheel1850
spider-wheel1868
front wheel1878
trailer1884
trendle1887
wire wheel1907
square wheels1924
jockey-wheel1952
1763 D. Bourn Treat. Wheel-carriages 14 In order to fix these to the carriage, at each end of the wheels or rollers must be an upright piece or plank.
1837 W. B. Adams Eng. Pleasure Carriages 95 The broad wheels of waggons, technically termed rollers.
1912 R. Straus Carriages & Coaches 181 You had coachbuilders and others filling the newspapers and publishing tracts,..to prove that the roads could be preserved only by using very broad wheels—some, indeed, advocated rollers.
c. Bookbinding. = roll n.1 17. Now rare.
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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinding equipment > [noun] > tools
plough1580
fillet1641
roll1656
paper-folder1781
stamp1811
backing-hammer1818
bookstamp1819
lettering tool1833
book cutter1850
roller1852
hand letter1862
pallet1875
wagon1875
stop1880
jigger1883
gouge1885
guinea-edge1890
marbler1890
panel stamp1893
saddle stitcher1944
1852 Godey's Lady's Bk. Nov. 411/1 Rough calf or sheep books are usually ornamented by passing a very hot roller round the edges and sides of the cover.
1880 J. W. Zaehnsdorf Art of Bookbinding 122 A fine line worked on the centre of the edge of the board..requires more pains than simply running a roller over it.
1906 S. T. Prideaux Mod. Bookbindings 126 Their provenance as apart from the country in which they were in use, who was the inventor of the pattern roller,—all such questions we may leave aside.
d. A small wheel with a handle through its centre, used in certain exercises for strengthening the abdominal muscles. rare.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > exercise > [noun] > equipment > others
trochus1706
troque1743
chamber horse1747
dumb-bell1785
stock1831
rowing machine1848
chest-expander1850
weights1862
stationary bicycle1883
punching bag1888
medicine ball1895
punching ball1895
stationary bike1899
kettlebell1908
rower1933
Exercycle1936
exercise bicycle1937
exercise bike1946
exercise cycle1952
roller1970
life cycle1973
multi-gym1976
gut-buster1983
roller1992
1970 Which? Sept. 288/1 Once you got fit with skipping ropes and chest expanders... Now it is..rollers. Maybe you haven't seen one yet. It consists of a wheel about six inches in diameter, and a handle on each side. You kneel down, grasp the handles, roll forwards, and then roll back to the kneeling position.
2007 Best Life Oct. 68/2 Roller abs... Kneel with an abs roller (a wheel with a handle through its center) near your knees.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal > traces > attachments for
norsela1300
pipe?1309
tug1417
tug-hook1417
spreadbat1775
trace-ring1795
trace-tug1795
spreader1810
cock eye1819
stretcher1828
tug-buckle1851
roller1856
piping1875
tug-carrier1877
tug-slide1877
trace-iron1902
trace-loop-
1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports 544/1 The traces themselves either end with an eye, or, with a full fold upon themselves, with an iron eye, called a Roller, and intended to be used upon the Roller-bolt of the splinter-bar.
9.
a. Any of various implements which are rolled over the body as part of a massage or other treatment. Cf. massage roller n. at massage n.2 Compounds 1.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the body > [noun] > improving the figure > implement used to help reduce weight
roller1881
1881 Med. Rec. 25 June 725/1 Instruments of Electro-Massage... The second [appliance] is an application of the roller lately introduced in connection with certain induction machines.
1883 N.Y. Med. Times June 73/2 The brass roller and covered roller for massage and spinal troubles.
1917 Health Culture Aug. 381/1 (advt.) To delicate people who require massage and have not the means or opportunity of procuring the services of a masseur, the roller is invaluable.
1930 London Mercury Feb. 323 She makes the roller earn its keep, I can tell you!
1980 Yoga Jrnl. Nov.–Dec. 47 (advt.) Each roller is carved of solid Cherry.
2003 Daily Tel. 24 Sept. 20/7 The chair has a roller to massage the feet.
b. A piece of exercise equipment consisting of a long cylinder, usually made of firm foam, on which a person lays their back, legs, etc., and moves with a rolling motion, esp. in order to stretch or relax muscles.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > exercise > [noun] > equipment > others
trochus1706
troque1743
chamber horse1747
dumb-bell1785
stock1831
rowing machine1848
chest-expander1850
weights1862
stationary bicycle1883
punching bag1888
medicine ball1895
punching ball1895
stationary bike1899
kettlebell1908
rower1933
Exercycle1936
exercise bicycle1937
exercise bike1946
exercise cycle1952
roller1970
life cycle1973
multi-gym1976
gut-buster1983
roller1992
1992 Yoga Jrnl. Sept.–Oct. 108/1 (advt.) Gravity Plus Catalog offers a wide variety of..items for..back care (back bending benches and back rollers).
1993 San Diego Union-Tribune 5 Sept. d3/2 After a sequence of about five exercises involving the roller, he asks you to lie on the floor again.
2004 D. Luger & P. Pook Compl. Conditioning for Rugby vi. 65 While sitting on the floor with your legs extended, position the roller under your legs.
2007 L. Chabut Stretching for Dummies ii. 22 Lie on the roller with hips and knees flexed and feet flat on the floor.
II. Something that is rolled up or wrapped.† 11. A pastry crust. Obsolete. rare.
10.
a. A long bandage that can be rolled into a cylinder to facilitate its application; = roller bandage n. at Compounds 5.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > bandage > [noun] > rolled bandage
rolla1400
roller?a1425
rollingc1450
roller bandage1771
woolder1823
roll bandage1834
?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 88v (MED) Þe wounde schal be bounden wele & saddelie & craftilie with rollers of softe lynnene cloþe.
c1475 tr. Henri de Mondeville Surgery (Wellcome) f. 149v (MED) Þe roller schal be first wounden twoward þe body or twoward þe partie þat þou dredist moost þe flowynge of humouris wyndynge þe roller vp to þe parties þat ben aboute wel fer of from þe wounde.
1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 264 On euerie side, bynding them with the Linnen rollers or fillets artificially.
1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 285/2 Applye it on the inflammation, and tye it with a Rowler, but not to stiffe.
1643 J. Steer tr. Fabricius Exper. Chyrurg. vi. 21 I anointed the whole Arme.., and rowled about Rowlers dipped in Water and Vinegar.
1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana ii. vi. 907/2 Holding it on with a Plaister..put over it, and binding it sufficiently fast with a Woollen Rouler.
1753 J. Bartlet Gentleman's Farriery xxxvi. 278 It would be very proper to keep the legs and pasterns rolled up with a firm bandage, or linnen rowler.
1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xxiv. 297 Using the moistened roller to keep the parts cool and retain the dressings.
1906 D. T. Smith Before & After Surg. Operations xviii. 184 The foot should first be bandaged with rollers, preferably made from sheet wadding.
1922 J. C. Vaughan & A. C. Burnham Text-bk. Minor Surg. 528 A three-inch roller is used starting in the axilla of the well side and continuing across the front of the chest to the shoulder.
2007 A. L. Thygerson et al. First Aid, CPR, & AED (ed. 5) x. 116/2 Gauze rollers are cotton, rigid, and nonelastic. They come in various widths.
b. A bandage used for wrapping newborn children; esp. a narrow length of bandage wrapped round the child to restrict movement. Now rare.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > for specific people > for children > for a baby > swaddling clothes
sweddlec725
cloutc1175
wind-cloutc1175
swaddlebandc1200
swath-bandsc1315
swath-cloutsc1325
sweddle-cloutc1325
clothesc1340
swathing-clouts1375
swathing-clothesa1382
cradle-band1398
swaddling-banda1400
sweddle-banda1400
swaddle-bind1467
swathing-banda1500
swaddling-clouts1530
swaddling-clothes1535
swaddle1538
swathe1565
sweilling clais1567
swaddle-belt1592
bandel1598
swaddlings1623
swaddle-binding1653
roller1656
1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked lxxx. §748 From sucking they proceed to weaning, and from the cradle to the rollers of the legs.
1705 T. Greenhill Νεκροκηδεια i. 65 Swathed up from head to Foot, with Rowlers like to the Swathes of Children.
1798 W. Oppenheim tr. Geogr. & Statist. Acct. Cisalpine Republic x. 234 She receives..the first year's bands and rollers for the swathing of the child.
1873 Sci. Health 3 128 First in order, in the dressing of the young infant, comes the inevitable bandage, or ‘roller’; this is commonly made of flannel, wrapped twice around the body, and pinned.
1906 K. Breul New German & Eng. Dict. 717/2 Widel-band, roller, swaddling band.
c. A broad padded strap placed around a horse's body esp. in order to hold a saddle, blanket, etc., in place.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > girth
wanty1297
wame-towc1310
womb ropea1325
girth1377
surcingle1390
warrok1392
garthc1425
cinglec1430
girt1563
wanty rope1569
girse1591
saddle banda1604
mail girt1607
saddle girt1613
saddle girth1635
mail-girth1673
girding1680
body girth1688
roller1688
wombtack1729
breast-girth1805
girthing1805
cinch1866
latigo1873
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 93/1 Rowler or Body Girth,..which slippeth too and again on the body Girth, or Sursingle..to keep the Girth from fretting of the hair.
1788 J. Clark Treat. Prevention Dis. Horses i. 46 That pernicious custom of girding horses bodies so very tight above their cloathing, by means of very broad girths or rollers.
1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports 347/1 When this has been done.., the side-reins are buckled on, and are attached also to the buckles in the roller, crossing them over the withers.
1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports 347/1 The roller has been hitherto the only kind of pressure round the chest.
1906 Outing Apr. 124/2 The surcingle or roller should never be drawn tight, for this badly bruises the backbone.
1981 R. H. Beatie Saddles Gloss. 362/2 A roller has two swells built in on the sides to discourage a horse from rolling when wearing a stable blanket.
1999 Horse & Rider Sept. 49/2 Then comes my ‘unsaddleable’ horse. The Plan: Join Up, put on the roller, then the saddle, and maybe leave it at that as a fair note to finish on.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > [noun] > pastry crust or case
coffinc1420
rollera1475
pasty crust1562
custard coffin1581
piecrust1582
crust1598
kissing-crust1708
dripping crust1747
short crust1747
standing crust1747
huff1787
croustade1845
turban1846
a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 39 (MED) For risshens: Take grounden porke þat soþun hase bene With peper and swongen egges clene..Lay hit in a roller as sparlyng fysshe, Frye hit in grece, lay hit in dysshe.
12. † a. A roll or cylinder of carded wool, flax, etc. Obsolete.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > treated or processed textiles > [noun] > wool > carded > roll
roller1829
rower1898
rolag1932
1704 Dict. Rusticum at Beating of Hemp You shall take the Strikes, and..make them up into great thick Roles, and..set them in the corner of some Chimney... Then they are to be taken from the Trough, and open the rough Rowler, and divide the strikes severally, as at first.
1803 Domest. Encycl. (new ed.) III. 41/2 Take pure combed flax, tie it up into rollers covered with white buckram, fasten them with packthread, and deposit them for a fortnight in a damp cellar.
1829 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 4 New Ser. 37 These flutes taking hold of each doffed portion of the wool, rubs it round, and rolls it into the form of a round rod, called a roll, or roller of wool, and delivers it out of the trough, on to a traversing table.
1844 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life in Dorset Dial. 254 The whindlen chaps in town Wi' backs so weak as rollers.
b. A line or row of grass, hay, etc., which has been raked and is ready to be formed into ricks. Now rare.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > drying of crops in field > row raked for drying
gavelc1440
windrow?1523
wind-balk1532
javel1601
turning1795
roller1844
wallow1875
1844 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life in Dorset Dial. 107 A-riaken auver humps an' hollers To riake the grass up into rollers.
1901 Longman's Mag. July 209 The long rollers of newly-cut grass over which he stepped were touched..by arrows of light.
III. A person, animal, or thing that rolls.† 13. A large cylindrical block of wood or stone, capable of rolling easily down a slope. Obsolete.† 14. A light frame, moving on castors, in which a child may learn to walk without danger of falling. Obsolete. rare.† 15. A kind of stocking, esp. one with a top which may be rolled up or down on the leg. Obsolete.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > cylinder > [noun] > cylindrical object > large stone
roller1550
1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War ii. xii. f. lxiiii They had great rollers of woode, which they fastened at two endes to chaynes of yronne, whiche kepte the sayd rollers at the top of the wall, hanged ouerthwart. And whan they sawe the stroke of the Engyne comminge, they lett slyppe the endes of the chaynes..in such sorte, that soubdainely the said rollers came to fall vpon the ende of the Engyne.
1555 Lydgate's Auncient Hist. Warres betwixte Grecians & Troyans ii. xviii Tyll the Troyans from the crestes caste The great stones..And Rollers [MSS. Callyon] eke grekes to oppresse.
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. 430 Overwhelmed with stones, fragments of pillars, and with Cylinders [margin. or Rollers], borne downe the steepe descent.
1654 H. Hammond Of Fund. in Notion xvi. 187 When a man tumbles a cylindre or roller down an hill,..the man is the violent enforcer of the first motion of it.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > device to assist child learning to walk
go-cart1649
roller1704
baby walker1851
walker1904
1704 French Rogue ii. 12 I no sooner was so fledg'd, that I could run about without a Rowler, or Leading-strings, but a great lady..was mightily taken with my Physiognomy.
1714 A. Smith Hist. Lives High-way Men (ed. 2) II. 208 He was such a forward Child that he could run about without a Rowler, or Leading-Strings.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and feet > [noun] > stocking > types of > which can be rolled up or down
roller1713
1713 List Commodities of Eng. Product exported to France 3/2 Rowlers pro Stockings.
1739 H. Baker & J. Miller tr. Molière School for Husbands i. i, in Wks. X. 11 Those pretty Shoes bedeck'd with Ribbons, that make you look like rough-footed Pigeons, and those large Rollers, where, as in the Stocks, the captive Legs every Morning are confin'd.
1756 Connoisseur No. 115. ⁋3 While I am employed in brushing the dust from my black rollers,..my wig is suddenly conveyed away.
1763 H. Bouquet Let. 16 Nov. (1940) 249 The Return of Cloathing wanted here viz. Serj: Hats 3, Stockings 3, Shoes 3, Shirts 3 Rollers 3.
1824 Pierce Egan's Life in London 21 Nov. 341/2 A kiddy, in a City benjamin and pearl rollers, said to them as they passed by, ‘Well, Mat has taken the shine from some of your worsted.’
16. † a. A volvox. Obsolete. rare.† b. The queen conch, Strombus (or Eustrombus ) gigas. Obsolete. rare.† d. = pipe snake n. at pipe n.1 Compounds 2. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1770 Philos. Trans. 1769 (Royal Soc.) 59 149 Fig. 3 is the volvox volutans, or the roller.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Strombidae > strombus gigas (queen conch)
conch?1527
conchyle1610
concha1755
queen conch1808
queen's conch1812
roller1815
horse-conch1885
1815 E. J. Burrow Elements Conchol. 202 [Strombus] Gigas. Large Conch; large Roller.
c. Either of two breeds of fancy pigeon developed from the tumbler which perform rapid backward somersaults in flight; a pigeon of such a breed. Frequently with distinguishing word. Cf. roller n.2 1.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > domestic pigeon > [noun] > tumbler
tumbler1678
tumbler pigeon1688
almond1735
almond tumbler1765
tippler1847
kite1867
roller1867
1867 W. B. Tegetmeier Pigeons xii. 127 The propensity to the performance of eccentric movements which distinguishes the breeds known as Tumblers and Rollers.
1879 L. Wright Pract. Pigeon Keeper 128 The true Birmingham Roller, which turns over backwards with inconceivable rapidity.
1939 C. A. Naether Bk. of Pigeon iv. 37 There are the Birmingham Rollers, named after the city in England, and the Oriental Rollers... These pigeons are bred and trained for stunt flying.
1984 D. F. Ison Fancy Pigeon Standards (ed. 2) 321 The Birmingham Roller is a flying breed which has been developed into the world's best performer and aerial acrobat.
2009 Star-Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 23 May 1 Lee was a happy, helpful teenager who kept homing and roller pigeons in two large coops.
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1890 Cent. Dict. Roller, a snake of the family Tortricidæ; a shorttail.
17. † a. cant. A nightly patrol, on horse and foot, for the purpose of preventing robberies. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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society > law > law enforcement > law-enforcement or peace-officer > [noun] > force patrolling roads
roller1819
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 202 Rollers, horse and foot patrole, who parade the roads round about London during the night for the prevention of robberies.
b. U.S. Chiefly in African-American use: a policeman; (also) a prison guard.In quot. 1940, in English prison slang.
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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman
truncheon officer1708
runner1735
horny1753
nibbing-cull1775
nabbing-cull1780
police officer1784
police constable1787
policeman1788
scout1789
nabman1792
nabber1795
pig1811
Bow-street officer1812
nab1813
peeler1816
split1819
grunter1823
robin redbreast1824
bulky1828
raw (or unboiled) lobster1829
Johnny Darm1830
polis1833
crusher1835
constable1839
police1839
agent1841
johndarm1843
blue boy1844
bobby1844
bluebottle1845
copper1846
blue1848
polisman1850
blue coat1851
Johnny1851
PC1851
spot1851
Jack1854
truncheonist1854
fly1857
greycoat1857
cop1859
Cossack1859
slop1859
scuffer1860
nailerc1863
worm1864
Robert1870
reeler1879
minion of the law1882
ginger pop1887
rozzer1888
nark1890
bull1893
grasshopper1893
truncheon-bearer1896
John1898
finger1899
flatty1899
mug1903
John Dunn1904
John Hop1905
gendarme1906
Johnny Hop1908
pavement pounder1908
buttons1911
flat-foot1913
pounder1919
Hop1923
bogy1925
shamus1925
heat1928
fuzz1929
law1929
narker1932
roach1932
jonnop1938
grass1939
roller1940
Babylon1943
walloper1945
cozzer1950
Old Bill1958
cowboy1959
monaych1961
cozzpot1962
policeperson1965
woolly1965
Fed1966
wolly1970
plod1971
roz1971
Smokey Bear1974
bear1975
beast1978
woodentop1981
Five-O1983
dibble1990
Bow-street runner-
1940 Current Hist. & Forum 7 Nov. 22/1 It is not good policy for the inmate to become too friendly with the roller (guard).
1960 C. L. Cooper Scene 9 The Rollers have a secret indictment against me from that time with Big Earl.
1964 N.Y. Times Mag. 23 Aug. 62/3 Rollers, police.
1967 ‘I. Slim’ in T. Kochman Rappin' & stylin' Out (1972) 388 The rollers cruised by in a squad car.
1973 C. Milner & R. Milner Black Players (new ed.) v. 108 Look, for a roller (policeman) to come to this door—he's insane, he's gotta be a nut.
1984 D. Kalinich & T. Pitcher Surviving in Corrections 171 Roller, corrections officer.
1994 N. McCall Makes me wanna holler 72 The rollers..turned up the heat.
1997 D. Simon & E. Burns Corner 68 Most of the rollers will play the sneak and drive their [police] cruisers the wrong way.
2004 ‘K'Wan’ Street Dreams xxvi. 285 He looked into the rearview and saw a fleet of squad cars approaching. ‘Rollers,’ he gasped.
18.
a. A long, swelling wave, moving with a steady sweep or roll. Also figurative.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > types of waves > [noun] > swelling or surging wave
swelling1387
jaw1513
surge1530
roll1535
brimmer1652
roller1829
beachcomber1859
1762 J. Parkhurst Hebrew & Eng. Lexicon 46/1 גלימ, waves, q.d. Rollers.]
1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer III. i. 5 A..sloop of war was caught in the rollers.
1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! vi Not even a roller broke the perfect stillness of the cove.
1863 Q. Rev. 114 567 The long rollers which followed the storm of the Reform Bill yet swelled heavily across the ecclesiastical waters.
1897 F. T. Bullen Cruise ‘Cachalot’ 90 The immense rollers setting in~shore..would soon carry a vessel up against the beetling crags.
1955 A. M. Lindbergh Gift from Sea i. 16 Rollers on the beach, wind in the pines, the slow flapping of herons across sand dunes, drown out the hectic rhythms of city and suburb.
1962 Science 138 15 When a roller breaks on a beach it causes the beach to vibrate and warms it up a little.
2004 Global Nov.–Dec. 16/1 Colossal rollers crash like tsunamis upon tropical sands.
b. Originally U.S. regional (western) A low rising or undulation on land (rare). In later use Cycling: a low or relatively short hill.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > rising ground or eminence > [noun] > undulation
accident1600
fold1601
roll1827
roller1849
1849 N. Kingsley Diary 29 Nov. (1914) 88 The land on the left rises in rollers from 10 to 50 feet and the soil appears rich.
1850 W. Colton Three Years in Calif. xxiii. 321 Our course, which was determined by a pocket-compass, now lay among mountain spurs, till we reached the rollers, which ridge the plain of the San Joaquin.
1998 S. Weaver Woman's Guide to Cycling (rev. ed.) xiii. 133 I love rolling hills... On gentle rollers, you may ascend the next with a snappy cadence and surprisingly little effort.
2000 L. G. Austin Mountain Bike! N. Calif. 447 Begin a gentle climb over ‘roller’ hills.
2006 Bicycling Aug. 116/2 Rock the rollers To keep going strong through rolling terrain, practice two-minute attacks.
19.
a. A ship that rolls or rocks. Now rare.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel with reference to qualities or attributes > [noun] > with reference to behaviour at sea > that rolls
roller1859
1859 Mech. Mag. 8 July 26/2 The ship must be an easy roller.
1890 R. L. Stevenson Lett. (1899) II. 185 The Janet is the worst roller I was ever aboard of.
1897 Punch 6 Nov. 207/2 Very few steamers in which I have..voyaged that have not been ‘rollers’.
1920 Overland Monthly Sept. 73/1 The Senator was a very small steamer, but said to be a good sea-boat, and as a roller she was assuredly in a class by herself.
2000 D. Donachie Tested by Fate (2004) 381 Both knew that Vanguard had always been a roller,..a ship that sat higher in the water than was good for her.
b. Baseball. A ground ball, esp. one that is weakly hit.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [noun] > batting > types of hit
skyscraper1842
single1851
grass trimmer1867
safe hit1867
roller1871
sacrifice1880
triple1880
two-bagger1880
sacrifice hit1881
pop-up1882
pop fly1884
fungo1887
bunt1889
safety1895
bunting1896
drive1896
hit and run1899
pinch hit1905
Texas leaguer1905
squeeze1908
hopper1914
scratch hit1917
squib1929
line-drive1931
nubber1937
lay-in1951
squeeze bunt1952
comebacker1954
moon shot1961
gapper1970
sacrifice fly1970
sacrifice bunt1974
1871 Philadelphia Inquirer 6 May 1/4 Schafer then sent another roller along the field, giving him three bases.
1880 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 15 May 7/1 Flint sent a roller to Crane, and he touched the first batter on the way to second.
1927 M. Charnley Secrets of Baseball iii. 43 Have batters knock rollers and bunts your way, and accustom yourself to handling them easily and smoothly.
1949 Fargo (N. Dakota) Forum 23 July 8/8 Corcoran's roller, on which there was an error, enabled Erickson to count, making it 3 to 2.
2003 Houston Chron. (Nexis) 6 Oct. (Sports section) 13 After sending a slow roller to the third base side of the mound, Fick raced toward first.
c. A person who rolls over; one who swings or sways from side to side. Also (with capital initial): = Holy Roller n. at holy adj. and n. Compounds 2a. Now rare.
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > convulsionism > [noun] > person > rolling
Holy Roller1842
roller1880
1880 St. Nicholas July 723 Gracie, the younger of the two girls, fell out of bed. This was a favorite trick with her, as she was a great roller and tumbler.
1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 16 Nov. 1/3 All of them rolled from side to side like ducks on a common. In a great hall..were fifty or sixty more of these rollers, smoking, laughing,..reading.
1928 Amer. Mercury Oct. 182/1 To the true Roller every word in his theological vocabulary..and every moral experience, no matter how trivial, is a symbol of forces whose presence inspires him to delirium.
2005 L.A. Weekly (Nexis) 29 July 44 Reebok makes thin waterproof pants, but real rollers live for grass stains.
d. Aeronautics. A machine used in the early stages of a pilot's training, capable of running along the ground but not of flying. Now rare.
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society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > training > [noun] > flight or aircraft simulator
penguin1915
roller1917
Link Trainer1937
flight simulator1947
1917 J. R. McConnell Flying for France iv. 143 First of all, the student is put on what is called a roller. It is a low-powered machine with very small wings.
1929 Papers Michigan Acad. Sci., Arts & Lett. 10 319/1 Roller.., an aviators' training machine which ran along the ground. Just about ready to fly, but which could not quite rise.
20. Mechanics. Each of the cylindrical components of a roller chain or roller bearing. Also: = roller chain n. at Compounds 5 (rare).
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle propelled by feet > [noun] > cycle > parts and equipment of cycles > chain
roller1863
bicycle chain1889
bike chain1897
ring1974
1863 U.S. Patent 40,683 1/2 The rollers on the endless chain I.
1884 E. Warre Athletics i. iv. 34 A knowledge of cones, parallels, rollers, and balls, of spoon and lever, of steering and of gearing.
1897 A. C. Pemberton Compl. Cyclist 115 From a lengthy experience I can vouch for the old roller being by no means a bad chain.
1920 A. L. Dyke Dyke's Automobile & Gasoline Engine Encycl. (ed. 12) 18 These rollers fit the space between the teeth of the sprockets.
1942 Pop. Mech. Sept. 110/1 (caption) In the photograph below, cages and rollers of a spherical roller bearing are being put in the outer ring.
2004 T. B. Davies & C. A. Nelson Audel Mech. Trades Pocket Man. (ed. 4) xxviii. 191 The roller link consists of two pin-link plates, two bushings, and two rollers.
IV. A person, animal, or thing that rolls something.
21.
a. A person who rolls something into a coil, cylinder, or roll.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > cylinder > [noun] > cylindrical object > formed by rolling > one who
roller1591
1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Embolvedor A roller, a wrapper vp.
1793 T. Hastings Regal Rambler 76 The tall taylor, the six feet broad-shouldered roller of ribbands.
1890 Argus (Melbourne) 20 Sept. 13/7 The ‘roller’ now, after first gently shaking the fleece to rid it of any dirt or adhering locks, turns back the neck.
1923 W. Stevens Coll. Poems (1954) 64 Call the roller of big cigars, The muscular one.
1994 C. Manning in M. Seller Immigrant Women (ed. 2) iii. v. 121 Her father helped her to find a job as a roller in a cigar factory.
b. A person who rolls a thing along or away; spec. (in later use chiefly North American) a bowler.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker performing process or spec. task > [noun] > workers performing other tasks or processes
river?c1475
melter1511
sinker1526
folder up1552
wiper1552
scourer1574
heaver1587
stoverc1600
rasper1611
ripper1611
roller1616
smearer1632
waterleadera1650
scooper1668
smiter1670
puncher1681
staker1688
crusher1794
hardener1796
reamer1822
piledriver1826
catcher1832
waterproofer1837
middler1847
culler1850
hanger-on1858
pitcher1865
bumper1871
fine liner1871
bricksetter1883
waxer1890
bottle-oh1898
edger1909
bottle-o-er1915
caster1921
recycler1970
linesperson1973
1616 R. Betts tr. King James VI & I Remonstr. Right of Kings 233 The first rowlers of that stone of offence, aymed at no other marke, then to make an ignominious and lamentable rent in the Church.
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Roller, a Roler, or a Trundler.
1877 J. W. McCrindle Anc. India i. xv. 58 He..says there are monkeys, rollers of rocks, which climb precipices whence they roll down stones upon their pursuers.
1907 M. Pemberton Diamond Ship Epil. 286 My friendship for Ean Fabos is too precious that men should call me a gatherer of moss and a roller of stones.
1962 Changing Times Dec. 6/2 He croaks if he catches a plastic ball rolled toward him, sticks out his tongue and emits a Bronx cheer if the roller misses.
2008 Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) (Nexis) 4 Feb. s02 It's the highest honor in bowling and top rollers consider it great to gain the nod once in their careers.
c. A person who flattens something by using a roller; esp. one who compresses or shapes metal by passing it between cylinders or rolls.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > metalworker > [noun] > roller
roller1822
forge-roller?1881
1822 E. Baines Hist., Directory & Gazetteer County of York I. 575/1 Smith Wm. steel slitter and roller.
1832 H. Martineau Hill & Valley (1843) 83 They saw the roller and his catcher at work.
1871 Daily News 26 Sept. A meeting of all classes of ironworkers,..shinglers, rollers, and puddlers, was held.
1908 C. Wilkins Hist. Merthyr Tydfil xviii. 207 The man who firstworked as a roller at the forge in 1860..was ninety years of age.
1969 N.Y. Mag. 27 Oct. 49/3 We drove by the Babcock & Wilcox steel mill, where my father works as a roller in the No. 2 hot mill.
2004 A. E. Mosher Capital's Utopia iii. v. 145 ED Klingensmith..had once been a roller at the Apollo mill.
d. North American slang. A thief, esp. one who steals from intoxicated or unconscious persons. Cf. jack roller n.Recorded earliest in drunk-roller.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > [noun] > from drunk or sleeping person
bug hunter1856
roller1880
jack roller1913
lush-roller1925
lush-worker1930
1880 San Francisco Chron. 18 July 1/8 What we call ‘drunk-rollers’ are in London called ‘bug-hunters’.
1894 Los Angeles Times 9 Feb. 7/3 Seggar took both men to the police station, the ‘roller,’ who called himself Joe Morris, being charged with battery.
1915 N.Y. World Mag. 9 May 14/3 Roller, a pickpocket.
1935 ‘B. Jackson’ Shave 'em Dry (transcribed from song) I'm just a stomp-down roller and I like to strut my stuff.
1935 Amer. Speech 10 14/1 Creeper, a prostitute who robs inebriated patrons. Modern roller.
1965 T. Capote In Cold Blood 250 We ended up with a pair of rollers... Next morning we woke up to find they'd rolled us and beat it.
1973 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 17 May 24/2 In addition to warning the public that rollers have been operating, the spokesman asked persons who are robbed to notify police.
2004 L. M. Wells Anzio to Alps viii. 107 They were scugnizzi, masters of deceit and play acting, thieves, pickpockets, pimps, rollers of drunken GIs and all the rest.
e. English regional. A person who rolls barley into rows. Cf. roller v. 3. rare.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > corn in sheaves > binder or band-maker
binder?1611
outliggera1642
bandstera1794
sheaf-binder1866
roller1892
1892 P. H. Emerson Son of Fens 13 The rollers are women who roll barley into ridges or tie the wheat.
22. Originally: a curl-paper. Now usually: a metal or plastic cylinder round which hair is rolled for curling. Usually in plural.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > implements used in styling the hair > [noun] > curling implement > curl paper
papers1685
roller1739
papillote1748
toilet paper1809
curl-papera1817
1739 H. Baker & J. Miller tr. Molière School for Wives Criticis'd v, in Wks. X. 288 Never was I so trampled upon. See, pray, what a Condition my Rollers and Ribbons are in.
1795 tr. K. P. Moritz Trav. Eng. 87 In the morning, it is usual to walk out in a sort of negligèe [sic]..your hair not dressed, but merely rolled up in rollers, and in a frock and boots.
1799 J. West Tale of Times I. 143 I will put my hair in rollers this very evening.
1830 H. Smith Midsummer Medley II. 15 My friend..still persists in having the barber every morning to dress his hair with rollers.
1881 Queen 12 Mar. (advt.) The Parisian leather roller, for curling the fringe, 1 s. the dozen.
1940 C. McCullers Heart is Lonely Hunter i. iii. 32 Her hair was done up in steel rollers.
1977 P. Carter Under Goliath iii. 17 The women in pink rollers nattered on the doorsteps.
2005 Hair Ideas Dec. 24 Spritz a light fixing mist into almost-dry hair and set in large velcro rollers.
23. An insect which rolls something; spec. a small moth whose larvae roll up the leaves of plants on which they feed; the larva of such a moth. Frequently with distinguishing word.In some cases (cf. quot. 1968) the leaf is rolled by the egg-laying adult.leaf roller, oak leaf roller: see the first element.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > member of (butterfly) > that causes leaves to roll up
roller1830
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Tortricidae > member of
Tortrix1797
dial1819
leaf roller1830
subtriple spot1832
bell-moth1841
oak leaf roller1877
roller1877
red-banded leafroller1886
1830 J. Rennie Insect Archit. viii. 162 (caption) Another nest of lilac-tree rollers.
1877 Globe Encycl. IV. 463/1 Oak leaf roller (Tortrix viridans), a well-known species of moth belonging to the Tortricidae.
1895 Chambers's Jrnl. 16 Mar. 175/2 A tomtit was flying about in it, pecking out the roller caterpillars.
1968 Oxf. Bk. Insects 188/1 Red Oak Roller... In early summer the female lays her eggs on a young oak leaf..and rolls it into a short case as food for the larvae.
1974 W. Condry Woodlands iv. 47 The oak tortrix [is] also called the green oak-roller.
1988 D. Bellamy Forest Roller caterpillars hide from the birds by wrapping themselves up in the leaves while they turn into moths.
2005 E. Andresen & F. Feer in P. M. Forget Seed Fate xx. 336/1 Regarding the ways in which dung beetles process dung, beetles can be classified as rollers, tunnellers..and dwellers.
24. Aeronautics. A control in an aircraft for regulating roll. rare.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > controls and instruments > [noun] > controls > devices to control altitude, attitude, or motion
puff pipe1894
altitude control1910
pitch control1930
jet flap1955
roller1959
1959 H. R. Hopkin & H. H. B. M. Thomas in Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 63 572/2 Roller, pitcher, yawer may well find general acceptance.
1961 Shell Aviation News Dec. 4/1 Instead of a stick,..we ought to have a motivator, or perhaps three motivators, namely a roller, a pitcher, and a yawer.
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C1. attributive with names of things.
a. In the senses ‘of or relating to a roller or rollers’, ‘having the form or movement of a roller’, ‘operating by means of rollers’.
roller attachment n.
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1860 U.S. Patent 26,735 1/2 After the washing is done, the roller attachment is brought up over onto the tub.
1991 Constr. Equipm. Oct. 39/3 The roller attachment compacts sub-base material for projects such as building pads, parking lots, and driveways.
roller belt n.
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1857 U.S. Patent 16,546 1/1 Figure 1 is a view of the machine having the roller belt and tightener removed.
2008 M. Ladaniya Citrus Fruit ix. 246 Fruit then moves to the sponge roller belt one layer deep to remove excess moisture.
roller bowl n.
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1829 London Encycl. IV. 42/2 The lower hemisphere of this roller-bowl is circumscribed with a fluted shell, to catch the wool that falls from the doffer.
2003 U.S. Patent 2003/0011239 1/1 The front end of the notched roller bowl..and the rear end thereof on the inner periphery of spindle 7 are respectively provided with curved grooves.
roller brush n.
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1818 Repertory of Arts 2nd Ser. 33 164 A small roller brush is placed between the hopper and the feeder, in order to prevent the feeder from becoming choaked.
1997 News of World 14 Dec. (Sunday Mag.) 8 (advt.) Pile-lifting roller brushes with 11,000 bristles spin at 6,500 rpm and deliver up to 70 million strokes a minute.
roller door n.
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1882 Ann. Rep. Dept. Agric. State Illinois 1881 19 423 Our own silo..was built of concrete and covered with a frame building, with side walls eight feet high, shingle roof, roller doors, and every requirement needed.
1971 R. Busby Deadlock x. 152 The roller doors of the loading bay were shut.
2003 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 11 May 87/5 Some sixth sense made her turn round to see her 4-year-old Ginger Meggs gleefully clinging to the roller door of the garage as it ascended.
roller edge n.
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1859 Horol. Jrnl. 1 154/2 No uncertainty of freedom should occur between the guard-pin in the lever and the roller edge.
1881 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (ed. 4) 125 Roller edges for Lever and Chronometer Escapements.
2000 J. Heard et al. in R. Perryman & C. D. Ellis Adv. in Manufacturing Technol.: XIV 98 The lens did not have the focal length to allow the roller edges to be focused.
roller edger n.
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1875 Michigan State Gazetteer & Business Directory 1875 575 (advt.) Also sole manufacturers of Esau Tarrant's patent log canter, and the Muskegon patent spiked roller edger.
1879 Lumberman's Gaz. Oct. 15 The abrogating of the old style of edging up on the log through the introduction of the roller edger.
1997 D. G. Hessayon New Lawn Expert (rev. ed.) 41/1 A roller edger is no quicker to use nor does it give as good a cut as a pair of long-handled shears.
roller head n.
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1855 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 29 New Ser. 97 I claim the arrangement of the adjustable spring frame..in relation to the roller heads, for the purpose of guiding and sustaining the sheet metal pieces.
2003 J. Innes Paint Magic (ed. 4) 51 A roller should be of the textured variety... You may think it worth buying a couple of detachable roller heads to save time cleaning off the build-up of glaze.
roller machine n.
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1824 Trans. Soc. Arts 1823–4 42 21 The leaves should be cut when full grown, and macerated for a few days in stagnant water, and then passed under a roller machine properly weighted.
1878 Industr. Art July (advt.) facing p. 1 The ‘Reversible’ lawn mowers..for cutting narrow borders, are roller machines.
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 22 Mar. (Suppl.) 8/2 The cost of running a mains-driven mower like the Ladybird roller-machine..works out at about 1d per hour.
2000 Printing World 7 Feb. 15 Three working widths will be available..—each as a cold roller laminator, a hot top roller machine, or a fully multi-functional mounter, laminator and encapsulator.
roller pair n.
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1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 225 The roller-pair..which receives the fine rovings from bobbins.
2003 P. R. Lord Handbk. Yarn Production iii. 81 If the input strands are cored, the outside sheath of fibers may be improperly gripped by the roller pair.
roller press n.
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1817 Monthly Mag. May 339/2 The impression is as rapid as that of the roller-press, and the stones last much longer than plates.
1895 O. Guttmann Manuf. Explosives I. 204 Three kinds of presses have been used—viz., screw-presses, roller-presses, and hydraulic presses.
2005 M. S. Pedley Commerce Cartogr. ii. 43 The prices of copper, the labor of engraving..and printing from a roller press were all elements that could be controlled in some detail by a map publisher.
roller shaft n.
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1796 Copies Exemplifications Patents spinning Flax 5 The wheel 5 is loose on the horizontal roller shaft 6 6 when out of work.
1886 Eng. Mechanic 19 Nov. 269/2 The cause of roller-shafts working loose in machine must be badly seasoned timber.
2004 J. Erjavec Automotive Technol. (ed. 4) xlii. 1089/2 It, in turn, engages the roller, causing the roller shaft to rum.
b. In the sense ‘fitted with, or coiling up on, a roller’.
roller curtain n.
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1858 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1857: Arts & Manuf. II. 381 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (35th Congr., 1st Sess.: U.S. House of Representatives Executive Doc. 32, Pt. 2) VII The inventor says: I do not claim as new the toothed flanged pulley, nor the endless eyelet band, nor the friction spring, nor the roller curtain by themselves.
1904 Westm. Gaz. 4 Jan. 9/1 All theatres must be provided with steel roller-curtains.
2001 Tin House Mag. Summer 135 It's too bright here, he said, and drew the roller curtains that were on the outside of the window. One of them got stuck, and stood diagonally across.
roller map n.
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1810 Monthly Mag. May 372/1 A front view of a window blind or roller map when fixed in its place.
1921 Elem. School Jrnl. 21 343 The phrases were..concealed by a shade or roller map until the teacher wished to use them.
2000 C. Breyer Close 26 With blackboards, clanging radiators, foldup chairs, and roller maps of the ancient Near East, these classrooms are characteristic of many small colleges around the country.
roller shade n.
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1876 Jrnl. Hort., Cottage Gardener, & Country Gentleman 9 Mar. 200/2 If you only require a temporary shade, the best is a roller shade of No. 2 tiffany or floral shading, and it can be raised or lowered at pleasure.
1962 Amer. Speech 37 173 The typically Southern coast expressions lightwood..for ‘kindling wood’, and curtain for ‘roller shade’.
1999 C. Mendelson Home Comforts xliii. 541/2 Miniblinds, venetian blinds..and vinyl roller shades are all washable.
roller shutter n.
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1854 London Jrnl. Arts, Sci., & Manuf. 44 273 The same counterbalancing principle may be applied to roller shutters made of iron; in which case one half of the shutter must be attached to the upper roller.
1978 Cornish Guardian 27 Apr. 5/3 (advt.) Roller shutter garage doors.
2005 Loot 13 Dec. (Liverpool ed.) 47/6 (advt.) Brand New Towmaster box van trailer.., plylined, roller shutter 7 jockey wheel.
c. Printing. In sense 4c, as roller composition, roller ink, roller mould, etc.
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1841 T. S. Houghton Printers' Pract. Every-day-bk. ii. ii. 114 Obviate the possibility of the composition being stripped from the roller-stock.
a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. III. 1964/1 Roller-mold, a mold in which composition inking-rollers are cast.
1881 Harper's Mag. Dec. 34/1 The paper is printed on ten Hoe's machines, which turn out an average of 120,000 copies per hour, this number having increased by a new patent roller composition that does away with frequent ‘cleaning up’.
1918 A. A. Stewart Printers' Rollers 15 The roller-mold..is now furnished only in exceptional cases on special order.
1941 Pop. Mech. Mar. 470/2 If a steel knife is used for this purpose, there is danger of damaging the roller composition.
2004 E. M. Harris Personal Impressions 144/1 The press sold for $300 in 1857 (the price including a roller mould).
d. Music. In sense 6, as roller arm, roller movement, roller peg. Cf. earlier roller board n., roller-frame n. (b) at Compounds 5.
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1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. vii. i. 166 The roller-pegs likewise must be of iron.
1880 C. A. Edwards Organs ii. vi. 73 The roller movement..requires a number of rollers in its construction.
1881 W. E. Dickson Pract. Organ-building viii. 106 Iron roller-arms have some great advantages.
1905 G. A. Audsley Art Organ-building II. 188 Each tracker is attached to a roller arm by a wire hook, the second arm of the tracker being similarly linked.
2000 D. Gwynn in J. Berrow Towards Conserv. & Restoration Hist. Organs vi. 46 There were new trackers with phosphor-bronze wires and plastic buttons, the roller arms had been cut open and plastic eyes inserted.
C2. Objective, as roller-carrier, roller-joiner, roller-maker; roller-carrying, roller-making adjs.
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1800 Bancks's Manch. & Salford Directory 2 Ackroyd, John, roller-maker.
1842 J. Bischoff Woollen Manuf. II. xii. 416 (table) Roller-joiners..Children.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Roller-maker, a manufacturer of cylinders of different kinds.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Roller-joiners, children employed in certain processes of the woollen manufacture.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1799/2 The arm m s is the roller-carrier, which swings on a pivot.
1887 Daily News 21 Oct. 3/5 My first phonograph consisted simply of a roller-carrying foil.
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 708/1 Since then glycerin has been introduced for roller making.
1936 F. D. Jones Ingenious Mechanisms for Designers & Inventors II. xiv. 451 This movement transfers the stack of five pieces to the roller carrier and completes the cycle.
1992 M. G. Lay Ways of World iii. 85 Steam traction engines became available in 1842, and the British roller-making firm of Aveling realized that they could be used to replace the underpowered horse.
2000 R. M. Martin Lancs. Giant i. 7 William's older sister was a weaver, his younger brother a ‘roller maker’, and his parents both cotton-mule spinners.
C3. Instrumental.
a.
roller grinding n.
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1857 J. Scoffern et al. Useful Metals vii. 152 The large increase which has taken place is referable to..the adoption of roller grinding mills, stamping mills, and machine-wrought washing apparatus.
2001 D. Wissing Scenic Driving Indiana xix. 139 The Mansfield Roller Mill State Historic Site is a pristine example of an 1880s flour mill, when mills shifted from stone gristmill to roller grinding.
roller levelling n.
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1926 U.S. Patent 1,610,576 2/1 The steps of our operation proceed as follows..cooling quickly..to dull red; roller leveling; then cooling slowly in 1 to 3 hours.
2006 I. J. Polmear Light Alloys (ed. 4) iii. 111 In such cases roller levelling or flattening in a press may be a more satisfactory operation.
roller milling n.
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1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 344/2 Roller milling or crushing.
1991 C. Anderson Grain i. 5 The Keewatin mill was built by E.P. Allis & Company of Milwaukee, who had in 1878 built the famous Washburn mill in Minneapolis and were then at the forefront of the rapidly developing roller milling technology.
roller painting n.
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1950 Winnipeg Free Press 11 Mar. 2/7 (advt.) Seamless roller painting set. Roller has seamless knitted cover and is complete with two sided all metal tray.
2006 Hardware Retailing (Nexis) 1 Aug. 148 Extension poles or handles can make roller painting both faster and easier for hard-to-reach areas.
roller printing n.
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1824 Mechanic's Mag. 4 Sept. 416/1 New Patents. To Edward Cartwright..for his improvements on, or additions to roller printing presses.]
1840 Minutes Evid. Sel. Comm. Copyright of Designs 21 in Parl. Papers VI Those firms have 410 printing machines for roller printing.
1936 Archit. Rev. 79 291/1 He is sufficiently familiar with the advantages and drawbacks of roller-printing, screen-printing and handblock-printing.
2000 Victorian July 29/1 A variant of the roller-printing process..produced papers which could be wiped or, when varnished, washed.
roller spinning n.
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1823 R. Guest Compend. Hist. Cotton-manuf. v. 17 The Jenny he [sc. Thomas Highs] made public; but the Roller Spinning he endeavoured to keep to himself.
1894 C. Vickerman Woollen Spinning x. 286 The combination of the jenny spinning of Hargreaves and the roller spinning of Arkwright resulted in the production, by Crompton, of the ‘mule’.
1998 R. R. Gehani Managem. Technol. & Operations ii. 63 In 1771 Richard Arkwright..introduced the roller-spinning method... It used rollers to draw out the rovings.
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roller-driven adj.
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1904 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. 65 609 Roller-Driven Tables.—A. Kingsbury gives the results of some tests of roller-driven tables at the Duquesne Works for the purpose of determining the sizes of the electromotors required.
1962 J. T. Marsh Self-smoothing Fabrics xi. 174 In general, festoon chambers were very commonly employed until after World War II, when roller-driven machines became more popular, particularly those with independent drive for each roller.
2008 Implement & Tractor (Nexis) 1 Nov. 17 The transmission features a roller-driven clutch and the ‘low’ gear provides broader engine torque curve.
roller-made adj.
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1884 Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate 8 Oct. We are greatly indebted to..our popular and entertaining mill men, for a quarter barrel of their best roller made flour.
1892 Daily News 13 Sept. 5/4 Millers..say that there is less nutriment in roller-made flour.
1910 H. A. Hayes Antietam & Its Bridges xi. 116 It rose quickly and had a quality which the flour lacks. It was ‘lively-like’, whereas roller-made flour is flat and lifeless.
roller-milled adj.
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1886 Encycl. Brit. Amer. Suppl. III. 96 It was..found difficult to procure intelligent workmen to operate the mills, and equally hard to accustom the public to the dry, roller-milled flour, and teach them how to use it.
1983 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 308 36 (caption) Roller-milled sheet of MDF cement dough.
2003 Albion 35 364 There is no comment on bread quality after roller-milled flour and a shorter fermentation process was introduced.
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roller-paint v.
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1952 Good Housek. (U.K. ed.) May 113 (heading) Anybody Can Paint a Room. No matter how inexperienced you are, you can roller-paint—and do a good job.
1960 Times 12 Dec. 15/3 Having roller-painted all her rooms herself.
1994 K. Govier Immaculate Conception Photogr. Gallery 63 She was standing on a stepladder, roller painting the kitchen ceiling.
roller-print v.
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1849 Sci. Amer. 27 Jan. 152/3 Roller printing calicoes. Steam Black: 1 pint of red liquor of 18 dgs.
1959 Manch. Guardian 2 July 4/1 All London bus tickets were roller-printed by the conductors.
2008 Lapidary Jrnl. Jewelry Artist Apr. 31/1 Sweat-solder another frame and roller-print another square for other side of piece.
C4. Parasynthetic.
roller-bearinged adj.
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1922 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 36/2 Connecting-rods of rotary and radial engines consist usually of one master rod, ball or roller-bearinged.
1995 European Patent 668,202 A1 8 The cargo container 12 rests on the bed 30 of the platform car 4 via a plurality of weatherproofed roller bearinged casters.
C5. † roller boiling n. Manufacturing Technology Obsolete = roll boiling n. at roll n.1 Compounds 3.
roller arena n. (a) the sphere of action relating to roller skating; (b) a roller skating rink.
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1922 Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 27 Mar. 8/5 (heading) Enters Roller Arena.
1941 Daily Messenger (Canandaigua, N.Y.) 6 Oct. 2/2 A skating party at the Roller Arena in Rochester.
2008 Telegraph-Jrnl. (New Brunswick) (Nexis) 11 Apr. c6 The play tells the story of a school population dealing with the closure of the local roller arena which many find upsetting.
roller bandage n. = sense 10a.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > bandage > [noun] > rolled bandage
rolla1400
roller?a1425
rollingc1450
roller bandage1771
woolder1823
roll bandage1834
1771 J. Aitken Ess. Several Important Subj. Surg. 72 The roller-bandages..are most improper and inconvenient in the cure of fractures.
1885 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. I. 470 The usual form of bandage is what is known as a ‘roller-bandage’.
2007 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) (Nexis) 11 Aug. 12 Lightly compress the limb above the sting using a roller bandage and keep the injured limb still.
roller beam n. Manufacturing Technology (a) a beam supporting or carrying rollers, esp. in a loom or similar machine; (also) each of two slowly rotating horizontal beams in a loom between which cloth is transferred as weaving progresses; (b) a beam supported on rollers.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing cotton > [noun] > machine for drawing or twisting rovings > part of
roller beam1813
spoon1853
1813 Repertory of Arts 2nd Ser. 23 322 The figures 1, 1, 1 (Plate XIV.) represent three iron top rollers... 3, 3, cast iron stands, on plates, to support the rollers... 4, a beam of wood, termed the roller beam, to which the plates are fastened.
1894 F. G. M. Stoney in W. Willcocks et al. Rep. Perennial Irrigation & Flood Protection for Egypt App. iv. 184 Each vertical edge of the door is furnished with a massive roller beam, planed throughout it's length for the purpose of working truly on the free rollers, which in their turn bear on the roller beams A fixed on the masonry.
1907 Fibre & Fabric 24 Aug. 2/2 It had two roller beams,..each beam containing two pairs of rollers.
1991 E. J. W. Barber Prehistoric Textiles iii. 106/2 Nearly every time the weaver rolled a finished portion of cloth onto the roller beam, she would have to wrestle with moving the weights down the warp.
1994 P. Anthony Shame of Man x. 203 Roller beams were laid beyond the end of the sledge, and the ropes and levers used to haul it onto the series of rollers.
2000 P. Davies Antique Kilims Anatolia iii. 29/1 One innovation that enables the weaver to stay at ground level is the ‘roller beam’ loom.
roller bearing n. Mechanics a bearing analogous to a ball bearing, having inner and outer races in which metal rollers are confined by a cage; cf. roller race n.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > shaft > [noun] > parts of > support or bearing
headstock1688
brass1731
bearing1734
carriage1788
step1814
bearance1826
footstep1836
cod1839
pivot bearing1851
roller bearing1857
thrust-bearing1858
step-plate1869
thrust-bearer1869
needle bearing1870
journal-bearing1875
wall-bearing1875
plain bearing1893
tumbler-bearing1901
split bearing1902
sleeve bearing1907
thrust-box1918
taper roller bearing1930
1857 J. B. Pascal Brit. Patent 465 4 Figure 3 is an elevation of the roller bearing of the axis.
1915 V. W. Pagé Model T Ford Car iii. 117 The differential mechanism and the wheel end of the axle utilize roller bearings.
2000 P. Vincent Mountain Bike Maintenance 84/2 The headset controls the movement of the fork. It contains ball bearings or roller bearings that must be kept properly adjusted for the steering to remain true.
roller bit n. (a) Saddlery a kind of bit with a rotating ball or bead fitted on the mouthpiece; (b) Mechanics a drilling bit in which the cutting teeth are on rotating conical or circular cutters, used chiefly in the oil industry.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > oil and natural gas recovery equipment > [noun] > drilling equipment > drilling bits
roller bit1858
rock bit1875
spudding bit1907
underreamer1912
oil string1921
spudder1922
1858 Househ. Words 10 July 84/1 The zebra has required as much taming as a hundred horses, and now the huge wooden roller-bit has been discarded..follows him around the ring in a plain snaffle.
1913 Bull. Univ. Texas No. 307 21 Below 2307 feet the roller bit was used, being found much superior, when in order, to other bits for drilling in limestone or other moderately hard rock.
1924 L. C. Uren Textbk. Petroleum Production Engin. vi. 152 The Reed roller bit..is equipped with eight disc-shaped cutters having teeth milled around their circumference and mounted in a massive steel frame.
1969 Daily Rev. (Hayward, Calif.) 28 Mar. 36/1 (advt.) Quarter horse, bay gelding, 6 yrs. old, with roller bit.
2005 R. D. Singh Princ. & Pract. Mod. Coal Mining iii. 77 The different types of bits used in rotary drilling are drag bit, roller bit, diamond bits, etc.
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1842 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 934/2 The cloth is subjected to an operation which imparts great lustre to it... This operation is called roller-boiling or patenting.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 376/1 This process, called ‘roller boiling’.., effected a wonderful improvement on the finish.
roller bolt n. now historical a short upright projection on the splinter bar of a carriage to which the trace (trace n.2 1) can be attached.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > parts of cart or carriage > [noun] > swingle-tree > parts or attachments of
roller bolt1796
wagon-hammer1875
tree-coupling1877
tree-iron1877
1796 W. Felton Treat. Carriages (ed. 2) II. 196 Splinter Bar Rolls, or Roller Bolts, are strong bolts, with large round flat heads, and thick rollers, round which the traces are fastened.
1851 ‘Nimrod’ Road 16 He placed his right foot on the roller-bolt,—i.e., the last step but one to the box.
1903 Amer. Horse Show Blue Bk. II. 18 Wheeler's inside traces shorter than outside traces, unless the inside roller bolt is enlarged to give the same result.
1994 D. J. Smith Discovering Horse-drawn Vehicles ii. 21 The traces of coach harness looped round mushroom-shaped roller bolts or uprights on the splinterbar.
roller boot n. chiefly British a roller skate having a boot which is permanently attached.
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1912 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 20 Dec. 12/1 I want..a pair of roller boots and a nice pair of gloves.
1989 Guardian 4 Apr. 21/3 Brenda has brought along her roller-boots.
2003 Attitude Jan. 21/2 Next up the inhouse band A Touch of Class... Rollerboots ready? Let's rock!
roller box n. (a) a box containing rollers or for holding rollers; (b) Engineering a tool-holder for a lathe in which the workpiece is supported by two adjustable rollers; cf. roller steady n.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > lathe > [noun] > tool-holders
roller box1835
tool-post1864
tool-stock1864
1835 Dublin Penny Jrnl. 26 Dec. 202/2 Each end moves freely on a roller concealed in the roller box.
1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 113 Roller box, the receptacle in which rollers are kept to protect them from dust, etc.
1941 E. Molloy Lathework iii. 61 The difference between the various types of roller boxes lies in the relation of the rollers to the cutting edge of the turning tool.
1975 G. Bram & C. Downs Manuf. Technol. v. 135 Various methods are used to set up the roller box, the one chosen depending on whether or not the work has been previously machined.
2001 Indianapolis Monthly Jan. 232/2 I sat cross-legged in front of my mother at bedtime, handing her pink rollers from the roller box.
roller boy n. Printing a boy employed to ink a forme or printing plate.
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1830 Evangelical Mag. 10 Apr. 120/2 Mr. — went into the ‘American Tract Society’ printing office with the aforesaid memorial, and procured the names of the boys in the office commonly called roller boys.
1896 W. D. Howells Impressions & Experiences 27 He became a roller boy, and served long behind the press before he was promoted to..set type.
1930 C. E. Morgan Origin & Hist. N.Y. Employing Printers' Assoc. iv. 44 The Typographical Association of New York..denounced child labor, especially the use of roller boys.
2005 Chron. Higher Educ. (Nexis) 8 Apr. 14 Mr. Rummonds describes..the duties and best practices of every kind of printing employee, from the master printer and overseer through the various ranks of journeymen: compositor, corrector (or proofreader), pressman, machine man, roller boy (the inker of type), printer's devil [etc.].
roller caption n. Television and Film a caption, subtitle, or other lettering which rolls continuously across or up a screen.
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1960 D. Wilson in Television Playwright 259 We move in towards the painted Dove on the fuselage and hold for the roller caption.
1989 G. Chapman et al. Monty Python's Flying Circus II. xxxii. 128 The camera pans across a landscape. Roller caption starts to come up, superimposed. The words are quite large and easily readable.
roller chain n. a drive chain with small rollers in each link for running on sprockets, now found esp. on bicycles.In modern roller chains the roller encloses a bush which contains the pin joining the plates on opposite sides of the chain. Being free to rotate as the chain passes over the sprockets, it ensures considerably less friction.In quot. 1829: a chain attached to a roller.
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1829 Repertory Patent Inventions 7 242 The hook of the roller chain being fastened to a ring that traverses from one end to the other of this horizontal bar, will, when the roller is put in motion, be drawn..to that end of the boat which is next the bank.]
1841 Prize-ess. & Trans. Highland & Agric. Soc. Scotl. 13 54 [A threshing machine.] AA represent the position and arrangement of the feeding rollers,..O the roller-chain, P the upper pulley.
1863 U.S. Patent 40,683 1/1 Looms in which an endless roller chain is used for determining what warp-threads shall be lifted and depressed.
1939 Pop. Mech. Aug. 313 Periodic cleaning and greasing of roller-chain drives on bicycles, scooters and motorcycles practically doubles the life of the chain.
2002 P. Miles Robot Sumo vi. 101 With roller chains, there is an ANSI number that is more commonly used to specify the chain.
roller chair n. a wheelchair.
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1877 Daily Constit. (Atlanta, Georgia) 24 July He found Mr. Stephens seated in his comfortable roller-chair enjoying a post-prandial smoke.
1921 Virginia Law Reg. 7 419 Mr. Stephens was distressingly afflicted and had to be carried into the hall in a roller chair.
1999 W. H. Bragg De Renne 45 He had died just over a score of years earlier, having served for almost two decades as the town's jailer (though much confined to a ‘roller chair’).
roller cloth n. †(a) a cloth, esp. one sewn together at both ends, running on a roller (obsolete); (b) a cloth for covering a roller used in textile manufacturing, esp. cotton-spinning (now rare).
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > rubbing with towel > towel > roller-towel
jack-towel1590
round towel1724
roller cloth1803
roller towel1808
horse-towel1861
runner1865
1803 Observer 2 Oct. 1/2 (advt.) Roller cloth & roller.
1825 Repertory Patent Inventions 1 Suppl. 468 The fine fur being first laid or bowed on the roller cloth of the engine, which will cause it to lie on the outside of the carded flake. After being thus carded, the materials are to be drawn, roved, and spun, like cotton.
1840 Workwoman's Guide: Instr. Apparel (ed. 2) vii. 186 Roller Cloths. These are very useful, and are fastened upon rollers fixed against the kitchen doors or walls. They are one breadth, and four yards long, the ends being sewed together.
1877 E. S. Phelps Story of Avis 224 A roller-cloth would do, dear.
1947 Times 12 July 7/6 (advt.) Roller cloths and sizing flannels for cotton spinning and manufacturing.
roller coat v. transitive to coat (a surface) using a roller (sense 4f); to apply (a coating) to a surface using a roller; cf. earlier roller coating n.
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society > occupation and work > industry > decorating and painting > decorate [verb (transitive)] > paint > other painting processes
to lay off1901
roller coat1935
paint-spray1967
rag-roll1969
1935 Los Angeles Times 5 Feb. ii. 4/4 Certain special lacquers for sealing cans or for roller-coating metallic surfaces in factories.
1958 Pop. Sci. 172 72/2 You have to thin them [sc. fire-retarding paints] a little, but then you can brush, spray or roller-coat them in the ordinary way.
1971 Engineering Apr. 61/2 Protectalac..can be brushed, sprayed, roller or curtain coated.
1993 W. A. Jenkins & K. R. Osborn Packaging Drugs & Pharmaceuticals v. 158 The separated sleeve is printed and then roller-coated with various coatings that impart high gloss and increase the vapor barrier about tenfold.
roller coating n. the action or process of applying a coating to a surface using a roller; cf. roller coat vb.Recorded earliest in roller coating machine.
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1904 World's Paper Trade Rev. 1 Jan. 14/1 I obtained Royal Letters Patents..in the year 1892..for roller coating machines.
1932 Brit. Patent 365,338 3/1 The coating composition..may be applied by any of the methods known to the finishing of leather, such as by brushing, swabbing, roller coating, or spraying.
1946 Billboard 10 Aug. 124/2 The processes now under development for application of the glowing paint include roller coating.
2004 Cairns (Queensland) Post (Nexis) 22 Sept. 17 New generation exterior-grade polyester finishes are applied over corrosive-resistant primers, using a combination of roller coating and over baking.
roller coverer n. a person employed to cover the rollers used in the process of spinning cotton.
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1824 Hist., Directory, & Gazetteer County Palatine of Lancaster I. 545/2 Woodcock Joseph, roller coverer and leather seller, Bow street.
1939 Times 1 Apr. 9/2 Reserved occupations..roller coverer, shuttle maker or assembler [etc.].
2000 R. M. Martin Lancs. Giant i. 8 A ‘roller coverer’ was concerned with refitting spinning rollers.
roller derby n. (also with capital initials) a type of speed-skating competition on roller skates or inline skates; (now typically) one for women, staged on an oval track, with specified periods during which skaters can physically assist their own team members and impede opponents; such a competition.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > roller-skating > [noun] > games or competitions
polo1883
roller polo1883
rink polo1885
roller hockey1902
roller derby1922
1922 Chicago Tribune 24 Apr. 20/4 (heading) Roller Derby On Tomorrow.
1945 Life 21 May 81/1 The Chicago Coliseum fairly whistled with roller skates. The occasion was the tenth annual Roller Derby.
1975 R. Hoban Turtle Diary xxv. 115 She was American... She'd..been a rodeo rider, done roller derbies, wrestled.
1979 Tucson (Arizona) Mag. Apr. 38/1 Tucson is the only city in America where roller derby is played on radials.
2009 Winston-Salem (N. Carolina) Jrnl. (Nexis) 9 Apr. 12 Once upon a time, roller derby was more of a show than a sport. But today, it's enjoying a strong revival as a feminist-infused, girl-power game.
roller disco n. a discotheque at which the dancers move on roller-skates.
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society > leisure > dancing > place for dancing > [noun] > public dance hall > types of
dance-cellar1855
hurdy-gurdy house1866
bal musette1926
disco1957
discotheque1960
roller disco1978
1978 S. Boorstin Keep on Rollin' 9/2 Skaters pursuing their passion..under the strobe lights of a roller disco.
1984 S. Townsend Growing Pains Adrian Mole 54 Then the roller disco started and she sped off to do wild disco dancing on her skates.
2004 S. Hall Electric Michelangelo 333 She told unwelcome stories of getting with boys exactly to her liking in the grottos of the bay and the roller disco.
roller-dried adj. that has been dried using a roller drier.
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1932 Bull. Hannah Dairy Res. Inst. No. 3. 134 Rancidity appeared less frequently in roller-dried than in spray-dried powders.
1939 Jrnl. Dairy Res. 10 202 Roller-dried milk cannot be reconstituted so completely as spray-dried milk.
1997 Bakers' Rev. Sept. 34 (advt.) Fruits & vegetables—freeze dried, flakes, juice concentrates, spray dried powders, and roller dried.
roller-dry v. transitive to dry (milk, whey, etc.) by means of a roller dryer.
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1932 Bull. Hannah Dairy Res. Inst. No. 3. 123 This milk was roller-dried.
1950 J. G. Davis Dict. Dairying 486 Whey from cheese or acid casein manufacture can be successfully roller dried after neutralisation with calcium hydroxide.
1984 P. A. Finot in P. K. Ghosh Health, Food & Nutrition iv. 206 Cereal products will most often be roller-dried but production in powder form is preferable for milk substitutes.
roller dryer n. (a) a machine consisting of a long heated conveyor of rollers over which wood veneers are dried; (b) (in the manufacture of milk powder) an apparatus in which milk, whey, etc., is dried on the surface of one or more heated rollers.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > apparatus in milk-powder manufacture
roller dryer1901
1901 Marshfield (Wisconsin) Times 10 May 1/3 The plant has recently been enlarged by the addition of a large lumber dry kiln and the capacity of the roller drier has been doubled.
1932 Bull. Hannah Dairy Res. Inst. No. 4. 61 The powder obtained from the standard roller drier is not a high class product.
1963 A. W. Farrall Engin. for Dairy & Food Products xiv. 410 The drum dryer, often called roller dryer.
1999 Timber & Wood Products (Nexis) 2 Oct. 32 From the lathes, the veneers pass to one of two four-deck roller dryers.
2007 Waikato Times (Hamilton, N.Z.) (Nexis) 11 Sept. 28 When Fonterra's manager quality surveyor Brian Hall entered the dairy industry in 1959, milk powder was produced on roller dryers and buttermilk powder packed in plastic-lined Hessian bags.
roller-drying n. the action of drying milk, whey, etc., by means of a roller dryer.
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1932 Bull. Hannah Dairy Res. Inst. No. 3. 119 Broadly speaking, the successful commercial processes [for the manufacture of milk powder] may be reduced to three main types:—(1) Roller-drying, (2) Spray-drying, (3) Dough-drying.
1939 Jrnl. Dairy Res. 10 202 The great heat to which milk is exposed in roller drying.
1980 Ann. Assoc. Amer. Geographers 70 487/2 Initially, the economical process of roller-drying [of milk] might be adequate.
2004 M. N. Riaz & M. M. Chaudry Halal Food Production 355 The dry, whole milk that is produced by a spray or roller-drying process.
roller-frame n. (a) the frame on which a roller is mounted; (b) a frame containing the rollers of an organ.
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1797 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 780/2 We force the roller frame..out again.
1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. iii. iii. 63 Instead of the roller-board [Ger. Wellenbrettes], there is in some organs a roller-frame [Ger. Wellenrahmen].
1921 Amer. Industries Dec. 34/1 The flexible articulating roller frame which permits the tractor to conform evenly to any obstacle in its path.
2004 J. Beck Ultimate Home & Prop. Maintenance Man. vii. 163 When the roller approaches a wall, be careful the roller frame doesn't scratch the wall.
roller furling adj. and n. Sailing (a) adj. (of a sail) that may be furled by means of a roller; (b) n. the facility for furling a sail by means of a roller.
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1945 Yachting June 54/2 A 34-foot Alden cutter with roller reefing on the main, roller furling jib and auxiliary power.
1948 G. Hackforth-Jones Come Sailing 33 If your boat has ‘roller furling’ taughten the halliards and see that the furling line is clear for running.
1990 Small Boat Jrnl. Jan. 21 (advt.) Pocket cruisers, daysailers and even dinghies need roller furling as much, if not more, than large cruising boats.
1995 Canad. Yachting June 45/1 Mildew grows best in the dark, damp conditions of the bottom of a sail locker or the insides of a tightly wound roller-furling headsail.
roller hearth furnace n. Metallurgy a furnace in which the charge is moved forward on driven rollers.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > [noun] > types of furnace by method of operation
lamp-furnace1651
wind-furnace1651
reverbatory1656
blast furnace1706
revolver1879
run-out1881
flame-furnace1888
producer1890
resistance furnace1897
induction furnace1907
suction plant1909
high-frequency induction furnace1918
solar furnace1924
roller hearth furnace1927
1927 Fuels & Furnaces Aug. 991/1 (caption) View of interior of roller hearth furnace.
1958 Engineering 11 Apr. 472/2 The mesh-belt type of furnace is satisfactory for strip of relatively low melting point material such as copper, but roller-hearth or walking beam furnaces may be required for..iron or nickel.
2007 G. E. Totten et al. in G. E. Totten Steel Heat Treat. (ed. 2) i. 16 (caption) Heating/cooling zones and transfer mechanism in a roller hearth furnace.
roller hockey n. hockey played on roller skates or inline skates.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > roller-skating > [noun] > games or competitions
polo1883
roller polo1883
rink polo1885
roller hockey1902
roller derby1922
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > hockey > [noun] > played on roller-skates
roller polo1883
rink polo1885
roller hockey1902
1902 Janesville (Wisconsin) Daily Gaz. 15 Dec. 1/5 The Bower City roller hockey team have come to the conclusion that it is futile for an amateur team..to compete with professionals.
1975 Oxf. Compan. Sports & Games 845/1 The roller hockey stick is similar in shape to a field hockey stick but flat on both sides of the blade.
2006 S. Dessen Just Listen 150 We passed a group of kids in a cul-de-sac playing roller hockey.
rollerman n. a man employed to feed sheets of heated metal into rollers.
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1829 Law Advertiser 22 Oct. 400/2 Edward Thomas, the younger, late of Dowlais, in the parish of Merthyrtidvil, Glamorganshire, rollerman.
1925 J. Grant Amos's Processes of Flour Manuf. (new ed.) xviii. 159 Rules for rollermen—Break system.—In starting up the rolls, they must be carefully timed and in easy running, ready for final adjustment as the feed enters.
2007 K. Warren Industr. Genius ii. 57 At Homestead some roller men in the beam mills earned $12.
roller mill n. a mill in which the grinding is done by rollers.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > [noun] > corn-mill > other types of mill
water corn mill1327
watermill1371
quern mill1590
water grist mill1636
tide-mill1640
parish mill1676
whin-mill1793
roller mill1828
saddle quern1867
walk-around1869
kibbler1882
1828 Amer. Farmer 4 Apr. 21/1 We, the subscribers, having inspected Joel Farnham's patent grater Cider-mill, are of opinion that it is decidedly to be preferred to the nut or roller mills heretofore in use.
1882 Lancet 10 June 967 To produce by means of roller mills the largest bulk of white flour from a given bulk of corn.
2001 D. Hunt Farm Power & Machinery (ed. 10) xii. 188/1 A roller mill is a very simple reducing machine.
roller miller n. a person who mills grain by means of a roller; a machine used for this.
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1884 Missouri Yearbk. Agric. 231 These [grades of flour] are blueish to glutenish when made from all Mediterraneans, hence roller millers find it best to make a mixture of wheats.
1892 Daily News 13 Sept. 5/4 Even roller millers, however, have not got it all their own way.
1942 Times 27 Jan. 9/6 The steel roller millers wash wheat, and must secure profit from the absorption of water.
2005 A. J. Lynch & C. A. Rowland Hist. Grinding iv. 49 Both the querns and roller millers were found to be well suited for use in the ‘gradual reduction process’ for making flour.
roller polo n. polo played on roller skates or inline skates, instead of on horseback.Recorded earliest in attributive use.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > roller-skating > [noun] > games or competitions
polo1883
roller polo1883
rink polo1885
roller hockey1902
roller derby1922
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > hockey > [noun] > played on roller-skates
roller polo1883
rink polo1885
roller hockey1902
1883 N.Y. Times 7 Sept. 8/3 The Washington polo team was like a baby in the hands of the champions to night in the fourth contest of the roller polo tournament.
1893 Rainbow of Delta Tau Delta 66 Spalding's Athletics Library no. 14, is devoted to ‘Curling, Hockey and Roller Polo.’
1895 Spalding's Official Roller Polo Guide for 1896 5 New England is now the only section in which roller polo rages.
1963 R. H. Boyle Sport: Mirror of Amer. Life vii. 266 There is no need to inquire as to what happens after a friend suggests that they take in a game of roller polo at a New Haven rink.
1990 R. W. Peterson Cages to Jump Shots (2002) iv. 51 Roller polo, a game similar to hockey which was played on roller skates by five-man teams, was at the height of its popularity in the early years of the century.
roller print n. (a) a roller for printing or impressing a design; (b) a fabric with a design produced by roller-printing.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > treated or processed in specific way > [noun] > printed > in specific way
roller print1846
madder-print1890
screen print1928
wax print1969
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > churning butter > butter-print
butter mark?c1475
butter print1616
butter stamp1820
butter mould1834
roller print1969
1846 Times 13 July 12/1 (advt.) To Paper Stainers. Mr. Hammond will sell..150 sets of Printing Blocks, of good design, many nearly new. Also six excellent Roller Prints, one 20 inches in circumference, by King, of Chelsea, nearly new, cost 20 guineas.
1950 Metrop. Museum of Art Bull. 9 14/1 Gifts received..Printed cotton, engraved roller print of Centennial subject, American, 1876.
1968 J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 246 Roller print: the colours for the design are applied directly to the cloth.
1969 E. H. Pinto Treen 100 Butter prints are of five distinct types and many patterns and sizes. The types are..(5) roller prints.
2002 L. Jackson Twentieth Cent. Pattern Design 16/1 His later designs [included] a series of roller-prints for Morton Sundour that featured minutely detailed Persian scenes.
roller pump n. †(a) a pump which is operated by rotational motion (obsolete); (b) (Medicine) a pump in which propulsive force is provided by the movement of a roller along a rubber tube, typically used in a heart-lung machine for pumping blood.
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1817 Northern Star Oct. 299/2 A patent has recently been granted for a roller pump. This pump is wrought by a rotatory, instead of a reciprocating motion.
1898 Trans. Med. Soc. N.Y. 389 The roller-pump is of great service in emptying the stomach after lavage.
1953 Science 15 May 537/2 The DeBakey roller pump..squeezes a length of rubber tubing by means of a roller.
1996 S. A. Berger in S. A. Berger et al. Introd. Bioengin. iii. 155/1 This peristaltic pumping action..is also used in man-made devices, such as roller pumps, much used as part of heart-lung machines.
roller race n. Mechanics a groove or race (race n.1 8c) in which a roller runs.
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1853 Mechanics' Mag. 19 Feb. 154/2 An improved construction of weighing turntable, and especially the construction of the rollers and roller-race.
1922 Highway Engineer & Contractor Aug. 56/1 This makes it possible to keep the center of gravity of the rotating frame [of the crane] within the roller race, even with the maximum and minimum operating loads.
2001 M. M. Khonsari & E. R. Booser Appl. Tribol. xiii. 391 The geometry involved in tapered roller-race contacts generally leads to higher friction.
roller reefing n. Sailing the facility for reefing a sail with the aid of rollers; cf. roller furling adj. and n. (b).
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1864 Newton's London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. 20 151 The fifth part of the invention relates to the application of swivel blocks or pulleys to the standards conducting the roller reefing chains.
1924 Trans. Newcomen Soc. 1922–3 3 47 John Bywater (No. 2782 of 1804) patented a roller reefing gear in which a hit-and-miss arrangement allowed the sweeps to be reefed or unreefed from inside the mill.
1998 Yachts & Yachting 21 Aug. 120/2 (advt.) Wanderer 536, combi trailer, cover, o/b bracket, storm sail, roller reefing.
roller rink n. a rink used for roller skating (cf. rink n.2 4c).
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1870 Coshocton (Ohio) Age 21 Jan. 2/5 The roller Rink at Atlanta is open only to ladies in the afternoon.
1907 N.Y. Times 8 Mar. 6/2 All races in roller rinks must be sanctioned by the Amateur Athletic Association.
1981 F. Flagg Coming Attractions 115 Mrs. Dot took us to the Rainbow Roller Rink the other night.
2008 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 23 Sept. 22 They can all salt away those few unfortunate shots of the future ‘Queen Catherine’, flat on her back..on the roller rink floor.
roller shelf n. a large shelf mounted on a series of rollers.
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1886 Libr. Jrnl. Dec. 491 The value of the arrangement lies in the fact that the heavy books lying on these roller-shelves are easily removed without dragging at the tops or bottoms of the backs.
1976 Gloss. Documentation Terms (B.S.I.) 57 Roller shelves, large shelves which rest on a series of rollers, designed for storing folios and other large volumes. Sometimes the volumes rest directly on the rollers.
2004 B. W. Seaver True Politician i. iii. 83 Rankin had the Library Bureau construct a large mahogany bookcase with ten roller shelves to hold heavy items like bound real estate and insurance maps.
roller shop n. (a) a workshop where rollers used in the process of spinning cotton are repaired or covered (cf. roller coverer n.) (now historical); (b) the part of an ironworks where the metal is rolled.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places for working with specific materials > place for working with metal > [noun] > rolling-mill
rolling mill1616
plate mill1671
steel mill1858
roller shop1859
lead-mill1863
sheet-mill1884
1859 Dover (New Hampsh.) Directory (J. S. Hayes) 64 Williams Isaac B. belt and roller shop, C. M. Co. house 74 Franklin.
1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 111 In the same range as the roller-shop is the laboratory.
1965 Ess. in Southern Biogr. II. (East Carolina College) 127 After the company entered the field of cotton mill construction, about 1892, a roller shop was set up to cover rolls for cotton mills.
2000 Lawyers Weekly (Nexis) 3 Mar. Johnstone was a student when he started working for Sydney Steel in 1968. He worked around the coke ovens, as a machinist and eventually became roller shop foreman.
2003 J. L. Harpe Lincoln County Revisited iii. 54 Carolina Roller Shop repaired and recovered rollers for nearly 150 textile mills within a 100-mile radius.
roller steady n. Engineering a steady (steady n. 2b) which grips between two adjustable rollers the workpiece being turned on a lathe; cf. roller box n. (b).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > lathe > [noun] > part holding work
mandrel1664
chock1665
pike1680
centre plate1717
carrier1733
chuck1806
screw chuck1827
grip-knob1833
faceplate1837
surface chuck1842
jaw-chuck1874
turning-carrier1877
screw worm chuck1881
steady1885
roller steady1911
1908 Railway Engineer 29 331/1 The patent roller steady turning tool..removes any friction at the point of contact with the work.]
1911 Trans. Amer. Soc. Mech. Engineers 32 745 Such a machine fitted with a roller steady averages an output at least 33 per cent greater than..older machines.
2007 C. Elanchezhian et al. Computer Aided Manufacturing (ed. 2) iii. 296 They have hydraulic or pneumatic tailstock and roller steadies for supporting the workpiece.
roller top n. and adj. †(a) n. a cylindrical top rail for a chair-back (obsolete rare); (b) adj. = roll-top adj.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > desk > [noun] > parts of
fall1788
roller top1811
loper1833
pedestal1866
roll-top1886
rim1923
desktop1929
1811 2nd Suppl. to London Chair-makers' & Carvers' Bk. Prices 14 (heading) Cutting and Rounding a Roller Top.
1882 Lowell (Mass.) Weekly Sun 16 Dec. 8/1 The day being the 15th anniversary of his marriage, a party of his friends gave him an elegant roller top desk.
1906 Virginia Law Reg. 11 769 A large sum of money..claimed by them to have been stolen from a drawer in a roller top desk in their storehouse.
1998 J. H. Berthrong Transformations of Confucian Way ii. 38 Joseph Needham has described the correlative system as something like one of those glorious and huge Victorian roller-top desks with a myriad of drawers.
roller towel n. a towel, esp. one sewn together at both ends, running on a roller.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > rubbing with towel > towel > roller-towel
jack-towel1590
round towel1724
roller cloth1803
roller towel1808
horse-towel1861
runner1865
1808 in Rep. Commissioners Board of Educ. Ireland (1812) 70 The bedding is good and clean; the children have table-cloths at dinner, and a competent number of knives and forks; two roller-towels hung up in the hall.
1937 M. Sandoz Slogum House 20 They sloshed themselves with water in the row of tin basins along the wall and wiped noisily on the clean roller towels.
2001 T. Clancy Bear & Dragon xix. 317 The men's room had the sort of pull-down roller towel that America had largely done away with.
roller towelling n. a type of cloth used for roller towels.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric for specific purpose > [noun] > for towels
towelling1582
bath-towelling1880
roller towelling1881
1881 C. C. Harrison Woman's Handiwork Mod. Homes i. 48 Among other washing fabrics used in art needlework are crash, roller~towelling, bamboo-cloth, [etc.].
1932 D. C. Minter Mod. Needlecraft 246/2 Roller towelling or Russian crash or zephyr.
1986 J. F. Gracey Meat Hygiene (ed. 8) viii. 153/2 There must also be one or more hand-washing units (lavatories) with a supply of..liquid soap and towels or roller towelling.
roller tube n. Biology a tube used for tissue or cell culture which is continually rotated in order to immerse the cells periodically in nutrient solution.
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the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > apparatus > [noun] > other apparatus
compressorium1845
air bath1848
compressor1881
Berkefeld1891
incubator1896
catchwater1901
ultrafilter1908
fermenter1925
gradocol membrane1931
roller tube1933
Tiselius (electrophoresis) apparatus1939
sonicator1952
Sonifier1961
cytocentrifuge1966
lyophilizer1967
biochip1980
1933 Amer. Jrnl. Cancer 17 753 With the roller tube method these cells can be allowed to re~implant themselves in another portion of the tube.
1947 Anat. Rec. 99 157 We cultured the hearts of 10-day-old chick embryos and grew them in test tubes in a roller-tube apparatus.
2003 A. Nagy et al. Manipulating Mouse Embryo (ed. 3) v. 240 Transfer the embryos into roller tubes using a hand-pulled siliconized Pasteur pipette whose internal diameter is slightly greater than that of the embryo.
roller-type adj. of a kind that has the form or movement of a roller.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > cylinder > [adjective]
roundc1325
cylindriac1612
cylindrical1646
cylindraceous1676
cylindric1688
cylindrala1711
gun-barrel1747
barrelled1853
cylindriform1870
barrel-shaped1871
roller-type1900
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [adjective] > with specific type of wheels > that has the form or movement of a roller
roller-type1900
1900 Rep. Director Mint Production Precious Metals U.S. 1899 339 Of the old type of roller-type gold mills there are also a few.
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 1 Mar. 72/1 For moving, the washer is mounted on roller-type wheels.
1991 Engineering July–Aug. 9/2 A special roller type crush forming machine for diamond-impregnated grinding wheels.
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rollern.2
/ˈrəʊlə/, U.S. /ˈroʊlər/ 1.
a. A jay-like bird, Coracias garrulus (family Coraciidae), having mainly greenish-blue plumage with dark blue wings and a chestnut back, noted for its characteristic tumbling display flight and found from southern Europe to central Asia. More fully common or European roller. Formerly also †roller-bird.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Coraciiformes (kingfisher, etc.) > [noun] > family Coraciidae
roller1678
the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Coraciiformes (kingfisher, etc.) > [noun] > family Coraciidae > member of genus Coracias > coracias garrulus (roller)
roller1678
blue jay1764
1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 132 I am verily perswaded that this bird is no other than the Strasburgh Roller.
a1691 P. Skippon Acct. Journey Low-Countries in Churchill's Coll. Voy. (1732) VI. 459/1 We..kill'd a curious bird call'd Rollar Argentoratensis, of the bigness of a dove, and of a blue colour.]
1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 388 The Corvus, with a blood-red back, a green tail, and black wings, the Roller... I think it the most beautiful of all European birds.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 242 The Roller..may be distinguished from all others by a sort of naked tubercles or warts near the eyes, which still farther contribute to encrease its beauty.
1809 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. VII. ii. 388 The common or European Roller is about the size of a Jay.
1855 C. Kingsley Glaucus 26 The blue and green Roller-birds, walking behind the plough.
1894 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. III 793 Roller, a very beautiful bird, so called from its way of occasionally rolling or turning over in its flight.
1940 H. F. Witherby et al. Handbk. Brit. Birds II. 272 Coloration easily distinguishes Roller from other British birds.
1958 E. T. Gilliard Living Birds of World 247/1 The European Roller..of Central Europe east to Kashmir and south in winter to South Africa is a 12-inch, jaylike bird.
2006 Bird Watching Aug. 13/2 White and Dalmatian Pelicans, Bee-eaters, Hoopoes, rollers, Golden Orioles and woodpeckers are plentiful on this part of the Black Sea coast.
b. Usually with distinguishing word. Any of several other Old World birds of the genera Coracias and Eurystomus, with predominantly blue plumage, related to the European roller and constituting the family Coraciidae.The ground-rollers (family Brachypteraciidae) and cuckoo-roller (family Leptosomatidae) of Madagascar have sometimes been placed in the family Coraciidae.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Coraciiformes (kingfisher, etc.) > [noun] > family Coraciidae > member of genus Coracias
roller1809
lilac-breasted roller1908
1809 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. VII. ii. 390 Indian Roller. Coracias Indica... This species is remarkable for the peculiarly rich and vivid appearance of its colours.
1869 A. R. Wallace Malay Archipel. II. xxiv. 42 I was rewarded by finding a splendid deep blue roller (Eurystomus azureus).
1893 F. C. Selous Trav. S.-E. Afr. 48 A pair of those rare and beautiful rollers (Coracias spatulatus)..came and perched upon the tree.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XV. 298/1 The birds known as blue jays in India and Africa are rollers.
1988 E. W. Brown Interval in Afr. iv. 256 Remember I mentioned the lilac-breasted Roller, the beautiful bird with bright Alice-blue feathers on its wings?
2003 Bird Keeper June 54/2 When I got to the blue-bellied roller (Coracias cynogaster ), it was basking in warm sunshine.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Ptilogonatidae > other types of
roller1752
phainopepla1858
fly-snapper1895
1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 503 The grey Ampelis, with the head variegated with black, the Roller. This is of the size of the common black-bird.
1792 J. Leslie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Birds III. 117 The Chinese Rolle [sic]. Coracias Sinensis, Gmel... The Chinese Roller, Lath. This bird has wide nostrils like the Rollers, and a bill resembling theirs; but are these characters sufficient to justify its classification with the Rollers?
1823 Edinb. Encycl. (1830) XVI. 50/2 A[mpelis] militaris, Coracias militaris, Shaw. Crimson Chatterer, or Crimson Roller... Inhabits the forests of Cayenne and Surinam.
3. In full roller canary. A variety of canary noted for rolling or trilling in song.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun] > subfamily Carduelinae > genus Serinus > serinus canaria (canary) > of particular kind or colour
runt1675
jonquil1865
lizard canary1865
macaroni1876
roller1884
Yorkshire1898
1884 R. L. Wallace Canary Bk. (ed. 2) xvii. 259 The most valued of all [German canaries] are the variety known by the name of the Hartz Mountain Rollers.
1906 Daily Chron. 20 Oct. 6/7 There are..in all, some twenty known trills or ‘tours’ in the song of a really accomplished roller canary.
1950 Press Herald (Portland, Maine) 11 June 8/8 Mrs Christopher began..by mating a female roller canary with a male black hooded red Venezuelan siskin, a smaller red-breasted finch.
2006 Cage & Aviary Birds 1 June 6/4 I have recently purchased some roller canaries..and was wondering if anyone in Scotland who keeps rollers would be interested in forming a roller club?
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rollern.3
/ˈrəʊlə/, U.S. /ˈroʊlər/ Oxford University slang (disused).
= roll-call n. to keep a dirty roller: to attend roll call dressed in pyjamas before returning to one's rooms. Now rare.
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the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [noun] > counting people
numberingc1325
numbera1382
lustrum1598
capitation1646
poll1659
roll-calling1752
roll-call1763
census1769
conscription1797
head-counting1831
roller1883
headcount1913
1883 Oxford Review 26 Apr. 345/1 Up to this time a nominal five, a practical four, and a possible three ‘rollers’ would suffice.
1895 Bachelor of Arts May 88 If a student has ‘kept a dirty roller’; that is, has reported in pajamas, ulster and boots, and has turned in again, he [sc. the scout] puts the breakfast before the fire.
1910 Michigan Alumnus June 481/2 We answer roll-call (‘roller’) at eight in winter and seven-thirty in summer.
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Rollern.4
/ˈrəʊlə/, U.S. /ˈroʊlər/ British colloquial.
A Rolls-Royce motor car. Cf. Rolls n.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > specific model
Olds1907
Model T1909
Ford1914
Rolls1915
Merc1930
T-model1932
beetle1958
T-bird1958
VW1958
Mini1959
Moke1959
deux-chevaux1962
Mini-Moke1962
Liftback1973
Beemer1978
Roller1979
foreign2010
1979 I. Dury Songbk. 62 Lat-er on he drove a Rol-ler chauf-fer-in' for for-eign men.
1985 L. Griffiths Arthur Daley's Guide to doing it Right 111 Now I think only good people get Jaguars and Rollers—those who deserve them.
1995 AA Mag. Summer 41/1 Any pre-owned Roller..will have..a year's no-hassle warranty—plus a full service history.
2006 Independent on Sunday 1 Jan. 5/2 Out go the Rollers, the Mercs, the Ferraris and the big houses with shag-pile carpets. Flash your wealth around now and you are in trouble.
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rollerv.
/ˈrəʊlə/, U.S. /ˈroʊlər/ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > work with tools or equipment [verb (transitive)] > other tools or equipment
rolla1325
coina1483
wedge1530
maul1664
burnish1793
roller1828
shear1837
miser1847
trough1881
tank1905
trepan1909
lance1945
plough1961
1828 Ann. Reg. 1827 ii. Patents 534/2 Machinery for rolling or rollering wool from the carding engine.
2. transitive. To make flat or smooth by means of a roller. Also in extended use. Usually in passive. Cf. steamroller v. 1.
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the world > space > shape > flatness or levelness > smoothness > make smooth [verb (transitive)] > by rolling
rolla1325
to roll into ——1616
re-roll1816
roller1830
1830 [see rollered adj. at Derivatives].
1871 R. F. Burton & C. F. T. Drake Unexplored Syria II. i. 55 A ‘Darb el Khashabah’ (wood-road), whose natural metalling had been rollered by deep snows..and by dragging heavy juniper-trunks.
1973 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 73 756 Guess who just dashed out for a loaf of bread in a tattered shirt and a rollered head?
1994 J. Galloway Foreign Parts vii. 107 Plastic circles that might have been the tops of bottles rollered flat, gold foil, ring pulls, straws, cigarette filter tips and a baby's teething ring.
3. transitive. English regional (south-western). To rake into rows. Also with up. Now rare.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > harvest (a crop) [verb (transitive)] > rake into rows
gavelc1440
windrow1729
roller1831
1831 J. Morton Gloucestershire Hill-farm 15 in Farm-rep. When the field is all hatched or rollered, people with forks make up the hatches into cocks.
1831 J. Morton Gloucestershire Hill-farm 15 in Farm-rep. When the hay-making machine has done its work, the hay is hatched or rollered up, as it is called.
1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. 77 Hay is ‘put in rollers’, or ‘rollered up’.
Derivatives
ˈrollered adj.
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1830 Mirror Lit., Amusem., & Instr. 14 Aug. 141/2 Around each church we see the neat substitution of rollered walks and artificial swards.
1845 T. Hall Effects & Adventures Raby Rattler liv. 488 Rollered grass ever rises the quickest.
1901 M. P. Shiel Purple Cloud 189 The lilac tree had grown from well-rollered grass.
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