roller

• From Middle English rollere, equivalent to roll +‎ -er.
• (credits in TV or film): These were originally printed on a physical cylinder that was rotated in front of the camera.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊlə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹoʊlɚ/

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• Rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)

roller (plural rollers)

1. (heading) Anything that rolls.
   1. Any rotating cylindrical device that is part of a machine, especially one used to apply or reduce pressure.
   2. A cylindrical (or approximately cylindrical) item used under a heavy object to facilitate moving it; usually several are needed.
   3. A person who rolls something, such as cigars or molten metal.
   4. (cricket) A large rolling device used to flatten the surface of the pitch.
   5. A cylindrical tool for applying paint or ink.

      Synonyms: paint roller, rolling paint brush, rolling brush

      • 1857, Patents for Inventions: Abridgments of Specifications, page 118:

        The deposit of color on the stone is transmitted to the metal by the lithographic roller the same as for paper.

   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.
      • 1947 March and April, “Notes and News: The Edge Hill Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 116:

        The cable used for hauling the wagons on the incline may still be seen, but several of the guiding rollers have disappeared.

   10. A rolling element inside a roller bearing: a small cylinder or sphere of metal.
   11. (cycling) One of a set of rolling cylinders allowing a rider to practise balance while training indoors.
   12. Any insect whose larva rolls up leaves, especially those in family Tortricidae.
   13. A dung beetle that rolls dung into balls.
   14. A cylinder snakes, small ground snakes of the genus Cylindrophis.
   15. A rolling pin
   16. (disc golf) A throw which involves the player throwing the disc in a way that makes it roll, by that being able to travel further than if thrown in the air. Only used on holes with open areas with short or no grass.

       He threw a beautiful roller that cut the corner perfectly and stopped just outside the circle.

2. A long wide bandage used in surgery.
3. A large, wide, curling wave that falls back on itself as it breaks on a coast.
   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend ; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits ; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous, […].

4. (heading) A bird.
   1. A breed or variety of roller pigeon that rolls (i.e. tumbles or somersaults) backwards (compare Penson roller, Birmingham roller, tumbler).
   2. Any of various aggressive birds, of the family Coraciidae, having bright blue wings and hooked beaks.
5. A police patrol car or patrolman (rather than an unmarked police car or a detective)
6. A padded surcingle that is used on horses for training and vaulting.
7. (television, film) A roll of titles or (especially) credits played over film or video; television or film credits.
   • 2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador, published 2007, page 69:

     I learned a lot from watching, but the part that I should have studied harder was the roller. The names of the writers went on for ever.

8. (slang) A wheelchair user.
9. (slang, informal) A Rolls-Royce motorcar.
10. (slang, music) A type break that consists of drum rolls; a drum and bass track made with such breaks.

• → Welsh: rholer

roller (third-person singular simple present rollers, present participle rollering, simple past and past participle rollered)

1. (intransitive) To roller skate.
   • 2020, Nick Hughes, Bahama Boyz, page 138:

     One day Frankie rollered up our drive and asked me if I fancied a skate.

• Orrell, reroll

Clipping of English roller skating.

• IPA^(key): /ɹou̯⁵⁵ laː³⁵/

roller

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, sports) roller skating

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from roller.

• IPA^(key): /ʁo.lœʁ/

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roller m (plural rollers)

1. (countable) in-line skate, rollerblade

   Il a eu sa première paire de rollers à l’âge de 8 ans.

   He got his first pair of rollerblades at the age of eight.

2. (uncountable) rollerblading

   J’adore faire du roller au moment du coucher du soleil.

   I love rollerblading while the sun is setting.

• patin à roulettes

• “roller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from German Roller.[1][2]

• IPA^(key): [ˈrolːɛr]
• Rhymes: -ɛr
• Hyphenation: rol‧ler

roller (plural rollerek)

1. kick scooter, push scooter, scooter (a small platform with two wheels that is propelled by a rider pushing off the ground)

or

• rolleres
• rollerezik

• roller in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

roller m or f

1. indefinite plural of rolle

roller f

1. indefinite plural of rolle

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roller

1. to polish a helmet

see roeler

roller

1. Alternative form of roeler (to roll)

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-oll, *-olls, *-ollt are modified to ol, ous, out. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (roler, to polish a helmet)
• rouler on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub (to polish a helmet; to roll)

roller m (plural rollers)

1. roller skate (a boot with small wheels)

   Synonym: patim

roller c

1. a cylindrical, rolling tool for applying paint
2. indefinite plural of roll