Crossword clues for rolled
rolled
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Roll \Roll\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rolled; p. pr. & vb. n. Rolling.] [OF. roeler, roler, F. rouler, LL. rotulare, fr. L. royulus, rotula, a little wheel, dim. of rota wheel; akin to G. rad, and to Skr. ratha car, chariot. Cf. Control, Roll, n., Rotary.]
To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface; as, to roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel.
To wrap round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over; as, to roll a sheet of paper; to roll parchment; to roll clay or putty into a ball.
To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to inwrap; -- often with up; as, to roll up a parcel.
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To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling; as, a river rolls its waters to the ocean.
The flood of Catholic reaction was rolled over Europe.
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To utter copiously, esp. with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; -- often with forth, or out; as, to roll forth some one's praises; to roll out sentences.
Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies.
--Tennyson. To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers; as, to roll a field; to roll paste; to roll steel rails, etc.
To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
(Geom.) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in suck manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
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To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
Full oft in heart he rolleth up and down The beauty of these florins new and bright.
--Chaucer.To roll one's self, to wallow.
To roll the eye, to direct its axis hither and thither in quick succession.
To roll one's r's, to utter the letter r with a trill.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: roll)
WordNet
adj. especially of petals or leaves in bud; having margins rolled inward [syn: involute]
uttered with a trill; "she used rolling r's as in Spanish" [syn: rolling, trilled]
folded in on itself to form a roll; "the edges of the handkerchief were rolled and whipped"; "jeans with rolled-up legs"; "swatted the fly with a rolled newspaper" [syn: rolled-up(a)]
rolled up and secured; "furled sails bound securely to the spar"; "a furled flag"; "his rolled umbrella hanging on his arm" [syn: furled]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "rolled".
Gritting her teeth against the pain, Abigail rolled to the side that Jane was directing her.
The beautifully rolled lawns and freshly painted club stand were sprinkled with spring dresses and abloom with sunshades, and coaches and other vehicles without number enclosed the farther side of the field.
The box bearing the aconitine label and the pills had all rolled out of the china umbrella stand, and he had taken it for granted that the pills belonged in the box.
The Aenean closest to Ivar trembled, rolled over and over, came to a halt and screamed.
With that Bill lays his arm on him to raise him up, for he said he was squeezed as flat as a pancake, and afore Nabb knew where he was, Bill rolled him right over and was atop of him.
He also caught sight of a helicopter being rolled out onto the helo deck aft as he pulled his eye away from the eyepiece, snapped down his eyepatch and lowered the periscope.
The veteran cop saw it coming and rolled out of the way as though he were an agile young man, barely avoiding the blow.
Erza passed them, got within a length, flew at the hare with terrible swiftness aiming at his scut, and, thinking she had seized him, rolled over like a ball.
They rolled on their round backs until their legs reversed themselves, allowing the silverbug to move on just as aimlessly as before.
Bailiff rolled up a black-ribboned scroll as Micum and Alec approached.
He said that he had traveled all over the world when he was young and that he had studied opera in Milan and in Buenos Aires and as they rolled through the countryside he sang arias and gestured with great vigor.
In the clearing around the Twins many of the Amar were already asleep, rolled tight into their sleeping leathers, their heads covered, their toes naked to the darkening night.
I saw when I staggered to my feet that the amorphous flute-player had rolled out of sight, but that two of the beasts were patiently standing by.
When they had made their tallies other gangs of seamen rolled the great barrels down to the beach and loaded them into the largest pinnace to be taken out to the galleon, which lay anchored out in the channel, under her new mainmast and rigging.
The slow, solemn enunciation of each word by a choir of hoary anchorets rolled in majestic cadence through the precipices of the mountains, and died away in the distant ravines in echoes of heavenly harmony.