Roll

To roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel.

The child will roll on the floor.

Huge Trunks of Trees, fell'd from the ſteepy Crown / Of the bare Mountains, rowl with Ruin down.

And her foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical stone, which rolls, and rolls, and rolls.

The gentleman aimed the ball once or twice and then threw it up the strand towards Cissy Caffrey but it rolled down the slope and stopped right under Gerty's skirt near the little pool by the rock.

To roll a sheet of paper; to roll clay or putty into a ball.

The cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.

To roll up the vase in bubble wrap.

This river will roll its waters to the ocean.

The years roll on.

To roll forth someone's praises; to roll out sentences.

to roll a field; to roll paste; to roll steel rails.

The pastry rolls well.

We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.

A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.

I want to get there early; let's roll.

OK guys, we're only down by two points. Let's roll!

Let's roll around town on foot and see the sights.

Here tell me, if thou darest, my conscious soul, what different sorrows did within thee roll?

I was going to kick his ass, but he wasn't worth getting all worked up over; I don't roll like that.

"This is how we roll in Spring Valley," one teen reportedly boasted.

If you roll doubles, you get an extra turn.

With two dice, you're more likely to roll seven than ten.

I'm gonna go and roll a new shaman tonight.

We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground, Rolling down to Old Maui

Now we are ready to head for the Horn Way-hey, roll and go!

Sometimes I'd roll a stray drunk, maybe steal a suitcase . . . anything so I could make it till morning

They rolled him for his money, and that would have been that, but the guy tried to fight back.

The feds rolled him by giving him a free pass for most of what he'd done.

He rolled on those guys after being in jail two days.

Cindy replied, “Wow, that’s great. Did you try E at those parties?” Steel said, “Oh yeah. I was rolling hard at the Willy Wonka party.”

The crowd was rolling on Ecstasy, and the lights enhanced the experience. […] He would use it to keep his teeth from chattering while he was rolling.

a. 2007, unidentified Internet user quoted in Joseph A. Kotarba, “Music as a Feature of the Online Discussion of Illegal Drugs”, in Edward Murguía et al. (editors), Real Drugs in a Virtual World: Drug Discourse and Community Online, Lexington Books (2007), →ISBN So the question is When you are rolling what gets you in that “ecstasy” state more: hard pounding energetic music or smoother and gentler music? Personally for me its gentler music because when I’m rolling my mind can’t really keep up with all the hard pounding intriquet sounds […]

The cameras are rolling.

It's time to roll the cameras.

So it was against the run of play that their London rivals took the lead two minutes before the interval through Drogba. He rolled William Gallas inside the area before flashing a stunning finish high past keeper Carlo Cudicini.

Rolled far too easily by Marc-Antoine Fortuné, Demichelis compounded his error by standing on the striker's foot. In the absence of the injured Watson, Gómez converted the penalty.

the hills rolled on

In this part of Warwickshire, the land rolls gently, so that, upon cresting a low rise or passing a copse of wind turbines, you suddenly spot a lot full of lorries or a complex of gigantic sheds.

The thunder rolled and the lightning flashed.

Many languages roll their r's.

The kids rolled the principal's house and yard.

Let's go through and outline how you might roll a kernel for a networked Linux machine you are using as your desktop machine and a file server for a network of Windows and Mac machines.

The clap in "Situation" is a standard Roland TR- 808 clap with a some compression and a bunch of reverb. But we can roll our own version using a soft synth and a have more flexibility, specifically in getting the extra decay for full "smash," as opposed to the short clap on Roland TR-808 and TR-909 drum machines.

For the second prototype's example, shown in Listing 5–64, we roll our own version of the Sum operator.

We implement Cube_ as a special case of an N-dimensional array. Unfortunately, our need to efficiently Swap with lower-dimensional containers is not supported by the boost::multi_array template, so we must roll our own.

Containers will be rolled to another mother vessel.

the roll of a ball

Look at the roll of the waves.

the roll of her eyes

Leaving behind us the town at the bottom of its deep bay, we set out to explore a bluff-headed parallelogramical promontory, bounded by Thurso Bay on the one hand, and Murkle Bay on the other, and which presents to the open sea, in the space that stretches between, an undulating line of iron-bound coast, exposed to the roll of the northern ocean.

to pass rails through the rolls

Hear the roll of cannon.

There was a roll of thunder and the rain began to pour down.

Calculate the roll of that aircraft.

The pilots entertained the spectators at the airshow by doing multiple rolls.

Make your roll.

Whoever gets the highest roll moves first.

He is on a roll tonight.

That was a good roll.

She has a bombproof roll.

a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.

Busy angels spread / The lasting roll, recording what we say.

As to the rolls of parliament, viz. the entry of the several petitions, answers and transactions in parliament. Those are generally and successively extant of record in the Tower

The roll of solicitors contains the names of all admitted solicitors of a jurisdiction.

Several people sued the state after finding out that they'd been removed from the voter rolls for having died, despite their not actually being dead.

The roll and list of that army doth remain.

a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon

THE Methods of Government and of Humane Society, muſt be Preſerv’d, where Every Man has his Roll, and his Station Aſſign’d him ; and it is not for One Man to break in upon the Province of Another.

Parchement is sold by the dozen, and by the roll of five dozens.