roller: Meaning and Definition of
roll•er
Pronunciation: (rō'lur), [key] — n.
- a person or thing that rolls.
- a cylinder, wheel, caster, or the like, upon which something is rolled along.
- a cylindrical body, revolving on a fixed axis, esp. one to facilitate the movement of something passed over or around it.
- a cylindrical object upon which something is rolled up: the roller of a window shade.
- a hollow, cylindrical object of plastic, stiff net, or the like, upon which hair is rolled up for setting.
- a cylindrical body for rolling over something to be spread out, leveled, crushed, smoothed, compacted, impressed, inked, etc.
- any of various other revolving cylindrical bodies, as the barrel of a music box.
- a person in charge of a rolling mill.
- a long, swelling wave advancing steadily.
- a rolled bandage.
roll•er
Pronunciation: (rō'lur), [key] — n. Ornith.
- any of several Old World birds of the family Coraciidae that tumble or roll over in flight, esp. in the breeding season.
- tumbler (def. 9).
- one of a variety of canaries having a warbling or trilling song.
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