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Roller

noun

A grounder that rolls along the infield.

A long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore. Synonyms: 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. Synonyms: crimper, curler, hair curler.

Old World bird that tumbles or rolls in flight; related to kingfishers.

Pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground. Synonyms: tumbler, tumbler pigeon.

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"Roller" Quotes from Famous Books

... Hawaiians were accustomed to hurl a piece of hard lava along narrow trenches prepared for the purpose. The stone which was called Maika closely resembled a chunkee stone. It is described as being in the shape of a small wheel or roller, three inches in diameter and an inch and a half thick, very smooth and highly polished. This game appears to have been limited to a contest of skill in rolling or hurling the stone itself. The additional interest which was given ...

— Indian Games • Andrew McFarland Davis

... Romans had no substitute for the papyrus, which was so brittle that it could not be folded or creased. It could not be bound up in books, nor could it be rolled up unsupported. It was secure only when it had been wound around a wooden or metal roller. ...

— Forty Centuries of Ink • David N. Carvalho

... edges of the cam plates in the figure—the carriage, by its own commenced descent, gets again upon its rollers, and runs forward upon these at once into firing position. The two elevated horns which are seen standing up at the rear part of the slide above the roller frame are designed to receive the thump of the two short buffer-blocks—seen at the rear part of each carriage cheek—in the event of the recoil not being wholly expended in raising the weight of gun and carriage, etc., along the curved ...

— Scientific American, Vol.22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 • Various

... nature of the particular sort of church-going public it wished to attract, which was none other than the heterodox element which flocked in vast numbers to All People's church. The All People's edifice was a big, unsightly brick building. It had been originally designed for a roller-skating rink. ...

— The Long Day - The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself • Dorothy Richardson

... well, you remember all about that. An ordinary Central and Suburban passenger train, non-stop at Knight's Cross, ran past the signal and crashed into a crowded electric train that was just beginning to move out. It was like sending a garden roller down a row of handlights. Two carriages of the electric train were flattened out of existence; the next two were broken up. For the first time on an English railway there was a good stand-up smash between a heavy steam-engine and a train of light cars, and it was ...

— Four Max Carrados Detective Stories • Ernest Bramah

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