Definition of roller

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Roller (n.) A cylinder coated with a composition made principally of glue and molassess, with which forms of type are inked previously to taking an impression from them..

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Distribute :: Distribute (v. t.) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table..
Trollop :: Trollop (n.) A stroller; a loiterer; esp., an idle, untidy woman; a slattern; a slut; a whore..
Ductor :: Ductor (n.) A contrivance for removing superfluous ink or coloring matter from a roller. See Doctor, 4..
Roll :: Roll (n.) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels..
Bohemian :: Bohemian (n.) A restless vagabond; -- originally, an idle stroller or gypsy (as in France) thought to have come from Bohemia; in later times often applied to an adventurer in art or literature, of irregular, unconventional habits, questionable tastes, or free morals..
Roller :: Roller (n.) Any species of small ground snakes of the family Tortricidae.
Dandy :: Dandy (n.) A dandy roller. See below.
Controllership :: Controllership (n.) The office of a controller.
Roll :: Roll (v. i.) To spread under a roller or rolling-pin; as, the paste rolls well..
Cylinder :: Cylinder (n.) A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of rollerlike form, of which the longitudinal section is oblong, and the cross section is circular..
Ball :: Ball (n.) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; -- formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now superseded by the roller..
Hammerhead :: Hammerhead (n.) A fresh-water fish; the stone-roller.
Stromata :: Stroller (n.) One who strolls; a vagrant.
Cyclostyle :: Cyclostyle (n.) A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred with an inked roller..
Swathe :: Swathe (n.) To bind with a swathe, band, bandage, or rollers..
Cradle :: Cradle (n.) A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship..
Shell :: Shell (n.) An engraved copper roller used in print works.
Trundle :: Trundle (v. i.) A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.
Picariae :: Picariae (n. pl.) An extensive division of birds which includes the woodpeckers, toucans, trogons, hornbills, kingfishers, motmots, rollers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds..
Repeat :: Repeat (n.) That which is repeated; as, the repeat of a pattern; that is, the repetition of the engraved figure on a roller by which an impression is produced (as in calico printing, etc.)..
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