Roller
['rəʊlə] or ['rolɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a grounder that rolls along the infield.
(noun.) pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground.
(noun.) Old World bird that tumbles or rolls in flight; related to kingfishers.
(noun.) a cylinder that revolves.
(noun.) a small wheel without spokes (as on a roller skate).
(noun.) a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore.
Typist: Rebecca--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, rolls; especially, a cylinder, sometimes grooved, of wood, stone, metal, etc., used in husbandry and the arts.
(n.) A bandage; a fillet; properly, a long and broad bandage used in surgery.
(n.) One of series of long, heavy waves which roll in upon a coast, sometimes in calm weather.
(n.) A long, belt-formed towel, to be suspended on a rolling cylinder; -- called also roller towel.
(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.
(n.) A long cylinder on which something is rolled up; as, the roller of a man.
(n.) A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc.
(n.) ANy insect whose larva rolls up leaves; a leaf roller. see Tortrix.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of Old World picarian birds of the family Coraciadae. The name alludes to their habit of suddenly turning over or "tumbling" in flight.
(n.) Any species of small ground snakes of the family Tortricidae.
Checker: Phelps
Examples
- An inking roller, charged with an oily ink, is then passed over the stone and inks the drawing, but leaves all the other parts of the stone quite clean. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Half a dozen able-bodied men were standing in a line from the well-mouth, holding a rope which passed over the well-roller into the depths below. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- In that case the steady pull on the balance will be one half the weight of the roller; or a force of 6 pounds will suffice to raise the 12-pound roller. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The most modern method of design-making is that of machine or roller printing. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The various tones must be changed either to lines or dots, so as to make a printing surface for the ink roller of the press to operate. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In the center or axial hole of the roller fits the balance staff, which staff also carries the balance wheel, and the balance spring, commonly called the hair spring. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Finger pawls, working into ratchets at the ends of the roller, serve to rotate it after each line is printed. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The printing ink is applied with large rollers, and the damped paper having been placed carefully upon the stone, with blankets at the back, it is passed through the press. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- When the proper fineness had been obtained in this way, the cotton, as it passed from the second pair of rollers, was twisted into a firm strong thread by spindles attached to the frame. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The upper half of the wire cloth belt is supported by and runs over a series of closely juxtaposed rollers. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The oranges continue along these rollers until the space between the rollers has widened to the point where each particular size drops into a labeled bin. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- About two hundred ingots are run through per hour on each pair of rollers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- After weeks of work he brought his teacher a remarkably exact map of the world, drawn to scale, and outlined in ink on paper pasted on linen, and fastened on two rollers. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The number of rollers and cylinders and the position and the length of the process to fully dry, compact, stretch and finish the sheet, may be, and are, varied greatly. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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