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Found 4 hits - Term: rolling, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
   1. 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.
      1913 webster

   2. 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.
      1913 webster

   3. to bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to inwrap;
      -- often with up; as, to roll up a parcel.
      1913 webster

   4. to drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of
      rolling; as, a river rolls its waters to the ocean.
      1913 webster

            the flood of catholic reaction was rolled over
            europe.                               --j. a.
                                                  symonds.
      1913 webster

   5. 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.
      1913 webster

            who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies. --tennyson.
      1913 webster

   6. 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.
      1913 webster

   7. to move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of,
      rollers or small wheels.
      1913 webster

   8. to beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to
      sound a roll upon.
      1913 webster

   9. 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.
      1913 webster

   10. to turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
       1913 webster

             full oft in heart he rolleth up and down
             the beauty of these florins new and bright.
                                                  --chaucer.
       1913 webster
       1913 webster

   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.
      colloq.
      1913 webster
see also:
rolled rolling control roll rotary to roll one's self 
to roll the eye to roll one's r's 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
rolling \roll"ing\, a.
   1. rotating on an axis, or moving along a surface by
      rotation; turning over and over as if on an axis or a
      pivot; as, a rolling wheel or ball.
      1913 webster

   2. moving on wheels or rollers, or as if on wheels or
      rollers; as, a rolling chair.
      1913 webster

   3. having gradual, rounded undulations of surface; as, a
      rolling country; rolling land. u.s.
      1913 webster

   rolling bridge. see the note under drawbridge.

   rolling circle of a paddle wheel, the circle described by
      the point whose velocity equals the velocity of the ship.
      --j. bourne.

   rolling fire mil., a discharge of firearms by soldiers in
      line, in quick succession, and in the order in which they
      stand.

   rolling friction, that resistance to motion experienced by
      one body rolling upon another which arises from the
      roughness or other quality of the surfaces in contact.

   rolling mill, a mill furnished with heavy rolls, between
      which heated metal is passed, to form it into sheets,
      rails, etc.

   rolling press.
      a a machine for calendering cloth by pressure between
          revolving rollers.
      b a printing press with a roller, used in copperplate
          printing.

   rolling stock, or rolling plant, the locomotives and
      vehicles of a railway.

   rolling tackle naut., tackle used to steady the yards
      when the ship rolls heavily. --r. h. dana, jr.
      1913 webster
see also:
rolling bridge drawbridge rolling circle of a paddle wheel rolling fire rolling friction rolling mill 
rolling press rolling stock rolling plant rolling tackle 
[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
rolling
     adj 1: characterized by reverberation; "a resonant voice"; "hear
            the rolling thunder" syn: resonant, resonating, resounding,
             reverberating, reverberative
     2: uttered with a trill; "she used rolling r's as in spanish"
        syn: rolled, trilled
     3: moving in surges and billows and rolls; "billowing smoke
        from burning houses"; "the rolling fog"; "the rolling
        sea"; "the tumbling water of the rapids" syn: billowing,
         tumbling
     n 1: a deep prolonged sound as of thunder or large bells syn:
          peal, pealing, roll
     2: the act of robbing a helpless person; "he was charged with
        rolling drunks in the park"
     3: propelling something on wheels syn: wheeling
see also:
resonant resonating resounding reverberating reverberative rolled 
trilled billowing tumbling peal pealing 
roll wheeling 
[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
152 moby thesaurus words for "rolling":
   acrobatics, advance, advancement, advancing, aerobatics, alpen,
   alpestrine, alpigene, alpine, angular momentum, angular motion,
   angular velocity, axial motion, banking, billowing, billowy,
   black spot, bloom, blooping, booming, bowling, cannonading,
   careening, career, centrifugation, chandelle, circulation,
   circumgyration, circumrotation, course, crabbing, dangling,
   definition, dive, diving, fishtailing, flare, forward motion,
   forwardal, forwarding, fringe area, full, full circle, fulminating,
   furtherance, furthering, ghost, glide, go-ahead, granulation, grid,
   gyrating, gyration, hard shadow, headway, hilly, image, knobby,
   lurching, march, mellow, monticuline, mountained, mountainous,
   multiple image, noise, nose dive, ongoing, onward course, passage,
   pealing, picture, picture noise, picture shifts, pitching,
   pivoting, plangent, power dive, progress, progression,
   progressiveness, promotion, pull-up, pullout, pulsing, pushdown,
   rain, reeling, resonant, resonating, revolution, revolving, rich,
   roaring, rocking, roll, rolling on, rotating, rotation,
   rotational motion, rumbling, scanning pattern, scintillation,
   shading, sideslip, snow, snowstorm, sonorous, spin, spinning,
   spiral, stall, stunting, subalpine, surgy, swaying, swinging,
   swirling, swiveling, tactical maneuvers, throbbing, thundering,
   thunderlike, thunderous, thundery, tonitruant, tonitruous, tossing,
   travel, trolling, trundling, turbination, turning, twirling,
   undulant, undulate, undulated, undulating, undulative, undulatory,
   vibrant, vibrating, volleying, volplane, volutation, volution,
   wavy, way, wheeling, whir, whirling, zoom





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