Rolling

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  • v. Present participle of roll.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Rotating on an axis, or moving along a surface by rotation; turning over and over as if on an axis or a pivot.
  • adj. Moving on wheels or rollers, or as if on wheels or rollers.
  • adj. Having gradual, rounded undulations of surface.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A reciprocating rotary motion about a fore-and-aft axis, more or less irregular, as of a ship at sea.
  • n. Ornamenting, by means of a bookbinders' roll, the edges or inner covers of a full-bound book.
  • n. Smoothing or polishing paper by means of calendering rollers.
  • n. A method of taking trout.
  • n. Same as roll, 5.
  • n. A twist or partial knot by which the thread is secured to the bobbin in lace-making.
  • Moving on wheels, or as if on wheels.
  • Making a continuous noise resembling the roll of a drum: as, a rolling fire of musketry.
  • Wavy; undulating; rising and falling in gentle slopes.
  • Turned over or down with the effect of a roll, or that may be so turned down.
  • n. In tea manufacture, in China and elsewhere, the operation of pressing the withered leaf, by an arduous manipulation (in modernized practice by machinery). The object is to burst the cells to promote oxidation (in black tea: see under tea) and to render the extractive matter subject to infusion. The curling or twisting of the leaf results incidentally.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. propelling something on wheels
  • adj. uttered with a trill
  • n. the act of robbing a helpless person
  • n. a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)
  • Equivalent
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    propulsion    actuation    robbery    sound   
    Verb Stem
    roll   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    bolling    bowling    cajoling    consoling    controlling    doling    enrolling    extolling    foaling    growling