Roach
[rəʊtʃ] or [rotʃ]
Definition
(noun.) European freshwater food fish having a greenish back.
(noun.) the butt of a marijuana cigarette.
(noun.) a roll of hair brushed back from the forehead.
(verb.) cut the mane off (a horse).
(verb.) comb (hair) into a roach.
Editor: Matt--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A cockroach.
(n.) A European fresh-water fish of the Carp family (Leuciscus rutilus). It is silver-white, with a greenish back.
(n.) An American chub (Semotilus bullaris); the fallfish.
(n.) The redfin, or shiner.
(n.) A convex curve or arch cut in the edge of a sail to prevent chafing, or to secure a better fit.
(v. t.) To cause to arch.
(v. t.) To cut off, as a horse's mane, so that the part left shall stand upright.
Inputed by Eunice
Definition
n. a silvery fresh-water fish: a concave curve in the foot of a square sail.—v.t. to arch: to cut short.
n. a rock: refuse gritty stone.—As sound as a roach perfectly sound.
Checker: Victoria
Examples
- When this pickerel saw the red roach through the glass, he made one of those awful dashes which is usually the ruin of whatever stands in its way; but he didn't reach the red roach. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- At the end of three-quarters of an hour he seemed a little shaken and discouraged, and stopped, and the red roach was taken out for that day and the pickerel left. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The pickerel doubtless attributed to the roach all this shaking, the rebuff which he had received. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I beg your Honors to read the testimony of Mr. Clarke in the light of the anecdote of the pickerel and the roach. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- At the end of the second day the roach was taken out. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Among the rest he put a pickerel into a tank containing water, and separated across its middle by a transparent glass plate, and on the other side he put a red roach. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- On the succeeding day the red roach was restored, and the pickerel had forgotten the impressions of the first day, and he repeated this again. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is the story of the pickerel and the roach. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The plate glass was then removed, and the pickerel and the red roach sailed around together in perfect peace ever afterward. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- For making the dynamos Edison secured, as noted in the preceding chapter, the Roach Iron Works on Goerck Street, New York, and this was also equipped. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Mr. Lowrey--Well, perhaps he was a different kind of a roach then; but you didn't succeed in taking him. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Now your Honors both know how a pickerel loves a red roach, and I have no doubt you will remember that he is a fish of a very low forehead and an unlimited appetite. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The place had a bar and six bare tables, and was simply infested with roaches. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Edited by Blair