Crossword clues for roller
roller
- Hair-setting item
- ___ derby
- Word with derby or coaster
- Window-shade part
- Type of skate
- One might be high at a casino
- Long wave
- Hair salon gadget
- Decorating tool
- Word with skater or coaster
- Window-shade holder
- Wave, or wave producer
- Surfing wave
- Suitcase lugger's aid
- Starter for derby or coaster
- Piece of curling equipment?
- Painting supply
- Painting gadget
- Paintbrush alternative
- Paint applicator
- Obsolescent cylinder used to curl one's hair
- Long, heavy sea wave
- High ___ (person who spends a lot at a casino)
- Ground-flattening implement
- Earthquake type
- Derby type
- Curl creator
- Alternative to a brush
- Ride ship on e.g. ocean wave
- Wave goes over fish: one runs on foot
- Support allowing shaft to rotate
- What makes flat bread in a cooker
- Swelling wave
- Word with high or holy
- Kind of derby
- Furniture feature, maybe
- Ocean wave
- Hair salon item
- Painting aid
- Suitcase convenience
- One of a set set in hair
- Brush alternative
- A long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore
- Pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground
- A cylinder that revolves
- A mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it
- Tumbler pigeon
- It will curl your hair
- Hair curler
- Kind of skate or coaster
- Word with skate or towel
- Hairdresser's aid
- He may be high
- Casino patron
- Car wheel, say
- Wave; bird
- Long heavy wave approaching the shore
- Revolving cylinder
- Painting tool
- Hair accessory
- Painter's tool
- Big wave
- Hair piece?
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Roller \Roll"er\, n.
One who, or that which, rolls; especially, a cylinder, sometimes grooved, of wood, stone, metal, etc., used in husbandry and the arts.
A bandage; a fillet; properly, a long and broad bandage used in surgery.
(Naut.) One of series of long, heavy waves which roll in upon a coast, sometimes in calm weather.
A long, belt-formed towel, to be suspended on a rolling cylinder; -- called also roller towel.
(Print.) 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.
--W. Savage.A long cylinder on which something is rolled up; as, the roller of a map.
A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc.
(Zo["o]l.) ANy insect whose larva rolls up leaves; a leaf roller. see Tortrix.
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[CF. F. rollier.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of Old World picarian birds of the family Coraciad[ae]. The name alludes to their habit of suddenly turning over or ``tumbling'' in flight.
Note: Many of the species are brilliantly colored. The common European species ( Coracias garrula) has the head, neck, and under parts light blue varied with green, the scapulars chestnut brown, and the tail blue, green, and black. The broad-billed rollers of India and Africa belong to the genus Eurystomus, as the oriental roller ( Eurystomus orientalis), and the Australian roller, or dollar bird ( Eurystomus Pacificus). The latter is dark brown on the head and neck, sea green on the back, and bright blue on the throat, base of the tail, and parts of the wings. It has a silvery-white spot on the middle of each wing. The lilac-breasted roller of Africa is Corcia caudata caudata, a brightly colored bird of the family Corciidae having malachite green, blue, purple-lilac, brown and sea-green feathers from head to tail; it is a popular sight with tourists in Africa.
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(Zo["o]l.) Any species of small ground snakes of the family Tortricid[ae].
Ground roller (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of Madagascar rollers belonging to Atelornis and allied genera. They are nocturnal birds, and feed on the ground.
Roller bolt, the bar in a carriage to which the traces are attached; a whiffletree. [Eng.]
Roller gin, a cotton gin inn which rolls are used for separating the seeds from the fiber.
Roller mill. See under Mill.
Roller skate, a skate which has small wheels in the place of the metallic runner; -- designed for use in skating upon a smooth, hard surface, other than ice.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., "thing that rolls;" early 15c., "rolling pin," agent noun from roll (v.). Meaning "hair-curler" is attested from 1795. Roller derby is from 1936 (see derby); roller hockey from 1926. Disparaging religious term holy roller is attested from 1842, American English, from the alleged rolling in the church aisles done by those in the Spirit.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (lb en heading) ''Anything that rolls.'' 2 # Any rotate cylindrical device that is part of a machine, especially one used to apply or reduce pressure. 3 # A person who rolls something, as in "cigar roller". 4 # (lb en cricket) A heavy rolling device used to flatten the surface of the pitch. 5 # A cylindrical tool for applying paint or ink. 6 # An agricultural machine used for flattening land and breaking up lumps of earth. 7 # One of a set of small cylindrical tubes used to curl hair. 8 # A roller towel. 9 # A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc. 10 # Any insect whose larva rolls up leaf. 11 # Any of the small ground snakes of the family ''(taxlink Tortricidae family noshow=1)''. 12 A long wide bandage used in surgery. 13 A large, wide, curling wave that falls back on itself as it breaks on a coast. 14 (lb en heading) ''A bird.'' 15 # A breed or variety of roller pigeon that rolls (i.e. tumbles or somersaults) backwards (compare Penson roller, Birmingham roller, tumbler, tumbler pigeon, English Short Faced Tumbler, English Long Faced Tumbler). 16 # Any of various aggressive birds, of the family Coraciidae, having bright blue wings and hooked beaks. 17 (also written Roller) A car made by Rolls-Royce. 18 The police (old blues slang). 19 A padded surcingle that is used on horses for training and vaulting. 20 (lb en TV film) A roll of titles or (especially) credits played over film or video; television or film credits.
WordNet
n. a grounder that rolls along the infield
a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore [syn: roll, rolling wave]
a small wheel without spokes (as on a roller skate)
a cylinder that revolves
a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it; "a woman with her head full of curlers is not a pretty sight" [syn: curler, hair curler, crimper]
Old World bird that tumbles or rolls in flight; related to kingfishers
pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground [syn: tumbler, tumbler pigeon]
Wikipedia
In BEAM robotics, a Roller is a robot that has a mode of locomotion by rolling all or part of the robot.
The rollers are an Old World family, Coraciidae, of near passerine birds. The group gets its name from the aerial acrobatics some of these birds perform during courtship or territorial flights. Rollers resemble crows in size and build, and share the colourful appearance of kingfishers and bee-eaters, blues and pinkish or cinnamon browns predominating. The two inner front toes are connected, but not the outer one.
They are mainly insect eaters, with Eurystomus species taking their prey on the wing, and those of the genus Coracias diving from a perch to catch food items from on the ground, like giant shrikes.
Although living rollers are birds of warm climates in the Old World, fossil records show that rollers were present in North America during the Eocene. They are monogamous and nest in an unlined hole in a tree or in masonry, and lay 2–4 eggs in the tropics, 3–6 at higher latitudes. The eggs, which are white, hatch after 17–20 days, and the young remain in the nest for approximately another 30 days.
The roller is an agricultural tool used for flattening land or breaking up large clumps of soil, especially after ploughing. Typically, rollers are pulled by tractors or, prior to mechanisation, a team of animals such as horses or oxen. As well as for agricultural purposes, rollers are used on cricket pitches and residential lawn areas.
Flatter land makes subsequent weed control and harvesting easier, and rolling can help to reduce moisture loss from cultivated soil. On lawns, rolling levels the land for mowing and compacts the soil surface.
Rollers may be weighted in different ways. For many uses a heavy roller is used. These may consist of one or more cylinders made of thick steel, a thinner steel cylinder filled with concrete, or a cylinder filled with water. A water-filled roller has the advantage that the water may be drained out for lighter use or for transport. In frost-prone areas a water filled roller must be drained for winter storage to avoid breakage due to the expansion for water as it turns to ice.
Roller may mean:
In biology:
- Roller, family of brightly coloured near passerine birds in the genera Coracias and Eurystomus
- Roller (pigeon), varieties of domestic pigeons that tumble or roll in flight
In industry:
- Roller (machine part), a cylindrical machine component or a component of a roller bearing
- Roller (agricultural tool), an agricultural or gardening implement for leveling ground
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Road roller, a heavy machine used in construction of roads and foundations
- steam roller, either a synonym for or type of road roller
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Rolling (metalworking), a metal forming process in which metal stock is passed through a pair of cylindrical rolls, used in a steel mill
- hot rolling
- cold rolling
- wheel, a wheel, often trapped on an axle between two planes, on which a load can be carried and transported
As a personal surname:
- A. Clyde Roller, an American conductor and music educator
- Kyle Roller, baseball player
- Mihail Roller, Romanian communist politician
Other uses:
- A mathematical "roller" is a Curve of constant width
- Roller, an Autobot component of Optimus Prime
- Rollers can refer to a light bar specifically, and by extension, a Police Car
- a padded surcingle, that is used on horses for training and vaulting
- Bicycle rollers, a type of bicycle trainer
- Rollerball pens (or roller pens), a type of writing instrument
- Rolls-Royce, nickname for the motor car brand
- The Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team, officially nicknamed "Rollers"
- the Rollers, rock band which evolved from the Bay City Rollers
- Apache Roller, a blog server written in Java
- Hair roller, also known as hot roller, an implement used in hairdressing to curl hair
- Paint roller, a type of rotating paintbrush
- Roller (BEAM), a kind of robot that moves by rolling
- "Roller", an April Wine song
- Roller (Transformers), a fictional character
- Roller (album), an album by the Italian progressive rock band Goblin
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.