Definition of roll

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Roll (v. i.) To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression..

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Pipe :: Pipe (n.) A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise called the Great Roll, on which were taken down the accounts of debts to the king; -- so called because put together like a pipe..
Roll :: Roll (v. i.) To spread under a roller or rolling-pin; as, the paste rolls well..
Enroll :: Enroll (n.) To insert in a roil; to register or enter in a list or catalogue or on rolls of court; hence, to record; to insert in records; to leave in writing; as, to enroll men for service; to enroll a decree or a law; also, reflexively, to enlist..
Logrolling :: Logrolling (n.) The act or process of rolling logs from the place where they were felled to the stream which floats them to the sawmill or to market. In this labor neighboring camps of loggers combine to assist each other in turn.
Joculatory :: Joculatory (a.) Droll; sportive.
Roll :: Roll (v.) Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list..
Estreat :: Estreat (n.) A true copy, duplicate, or extract of an original writing or record, esp. of amercements or penalties set down in the rolls of court to be levied by the bailiff, or other officer..
Troop :: Troop (n.) A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.
Barcarolle :: Barcarolle (n.) A popular song or melody sung by Venetian gondoliers.
Rouleau :: Rouleau (n.) A little roll; a roll of coins put up in paper, or something resembling such a roll..
Overrule :: Overrule (v. i.) To be superior or supreme in rulling or controlling; as, God rules and overrules..
Circumvolve :: Circumvolve (v. i.) To roll round; to revolve.
Scyphus :: Scyphus (n.) The cup of a narcissus, or a similar appendage to the corolla in other flowers..
Logrolling :: Logrolling (n.) Hence: A combining to assist another in consideration of receiving assistance in return; -- sometimes used of a disreputable mode of accomplishing political schemes or ends.
Standard :: Standard (n.) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
Roll :: Roll (n.) To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers; as, to roll a field; to roll paste; to roll steel rails, etc..
Moralist :: Moralist (n.) One who practices moral duties; a person who lives in conformity with moral rules; one of correct deportment and dealings with his fellow-creatures; -- sometimes used in contradistinction to one whose life is controlled by religious motives.
Drollery :: Drollery (n.) A puppet show; also, a puppet..
Leading :: Leading (a.) Guiding; directing; controlling; foremost; as, a leading motive; a leading man; a leading example..
Trolly :: Trolly (n.) A form of truck which can be tilted, for carrying railroad materials, or the like..
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