A long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore

Usage examples of roller.

All the bars and blinds of the steel shell--it was not really a spherical shell, but polyhedral, with a roller blind to each facet--had arrived by February, and the lower half was bolted together.

They had seen Brodder in action trying to steam roller some motion through on the floor at a general meeting.

There were many different kinds of ball: high-flying, known as flies, long balls, flat, corner, short balls, popflies, rollers, grounders, dribblers, goal balls, and triple-run balls.

There were squadrons of jet-black drongos with long forked tails, starlings of iridescent malachite green, rollers and bee-eaters in jewelled colours of turquoise and sunlight yellow, carmine and purple, jinking and whirling in full flight, ecstatic with greed.

The inhabitants of Pomeriggio had died, a person called Dunster had been born to bring about unmitigated disaster, Jaunty had lost the power of speech, a hit man had been compelled to off-load his Rollers and flee the country, and Lance Corporal Sweeting had deserted all so that Justin Glover could fly to Italy, unencumbered by his nearest and dearest.

As for Roller, he pulled alongside of the Foudroyant just as the bells of the fleet were striking eight, or midnight.

It matters that the Matterhorn is a mountain, for example, because it makes a simple roller coaster into a geographic adventure.

And the way the driver is hurling her about in the back is adding to her elation, as though she was at a fun fair on the Roller Ghoster, which used to come to Highbury Fields: Roll up, roll up, Roller Ghoster, fast ride, fast ride, down the hill, Roller Ghoster.

Selection and Preparation for Use, Carpentry, Veneering, Paper-Making, Bookbinding, Printing Rollers, Hectographs, Match Manufacture, Sandpaper, etc.

Then he from Jop did take the horn and blow: So loud and shrill, he warned good John Wright, Who soon struck out the roller with great slight.

From each end of four, the presses put first a banner in colour - red, green, blue - on the sheets that would be the front and back pages, and then came the closely edited black and white pages set onto rollers in an age-old, but still perfectly functional, offset litho process.

Rod as he stepped into the cage, and the onsetter slammed the steel roller doors closed.

When the mill was in operation sawn lumber was fed into the timber dock by a long row of live rollers.

The stuffing was hanging out of the seat pad and two of the four rollers on the chair legs were missing, so it scraped unevenly along the floor as Shreve moved it forward to rest his folded elbows on the desk.

And just back from the beach there were dance halls, and movie theaters showing socko features, and there was a roller coaster and many rides, and fake dinosaurs which were actually apartment houses.