Rolling
['rəʊlɪŋ] or ['rolɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of robbing a helpless person; 'he was charged with rolling drunks in the park'.
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Roll
(a.) Rotating on an axis, or moving along a surface by rotation; turning over and over as if on an axis or a pivot; as, a rolling wheel or ball.
(a.) Moving on wheels or rollers, or as if on wheels or rollers; as, a rolling chair.
(a.) Having gradual, rounded undulations of surface; as, a rolling country; rolling land.
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Examples
- What we call the rolling of thunder is really the reflection and re-reflection of the original thunder from cloud and cliff. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The Earl had procured a pair of horses somehow, in spite of Mrs. Crawley, and was rolling on the road to Ghent. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- One of his favourite amusements, we are told, was the expensive one of rolling elephants down precipitous places in order to watch their sufferings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- From the coast inland, stretch, between flowered lanes and hedges, rolling pasture-lands of rich green made all the more vivid by th e deep reddish tint of the ploughed fields. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Struggling and shrieking, his body, rolling from side to side, moved quickly toward the shadows beneath the trees. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Here Mr. Guppy's mother fell into an extraordinary passion of rolling her head and smiling waggishly at anybody who would look at her. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I turned down the clothes'; continued Giles, rolling back the table-cloth, 'sat up in bed; and listened. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- One eye was buried in the soft loam; the other, rolling sidewise, was fixed in awe upon the strange gyrations of Professor Porter. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- My only answer was my own voice reverberating in a rolling echo from the cliffs around me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Nearly every Mexican carried a pouch of leaf tobacco, powdered by rolling in the hands, and a roll of corn husks to make wrappers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The dull sound of the cannon went on rolling, rolling. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- When the rolling is completed the strip of metal is about six feet long. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons away; They fly, forgotten, as a dream Dies at the opening day. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I picked up one, of several that were rolling about, and treasured it as a keepsake for a long time. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The thunder was rolling into distance, and the rain was pouring down like a deluge, when the door of his room opened. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
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