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A lilac-crested roller (bird of the family Coraciidae), Coracias caudatus

A larger cricket roller.

A smaller cricket roller.

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. A large rolling device used to flatten a grass surface; commonly in relation to a cricket 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, […].
    • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 141:
      A road that runs due west from Dale passes the village church and Dale Castle, and a footpath continues to Westdale Bay, a sandy beach used by surfers when the westerlies send great rollers crashing in from the Atlantic.
  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 nonpasserine birds constituting the family Coraciidae, having stocky bodies, large heads, and stout bills hooked at the tip.
      • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 333:
        In such places I found a good many birds, among which were the fine cream-coloured pigeon, Carpophaga luctuosa, and the rare blue-headed roller, Coracias temmincki, which has a most discordant voice, and generally goes in pairs, flying from tree to tree, and exhibiting while at rest that all-in-a-heap appearance and jerking motion of the head and tail which are so characteristic of the great Fissirostral group to which it belongs.
  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.

anything that rolls

cricket: large rolling device

agricultural machine

roller pigeon that somersaults backwards at high speed

bird of the family Coraciidae

padded surcingle used on horses

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.

Clipping of English roller skating.

roller

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, sports) roller skating

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from roller.

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.

roller

Borrowed from German Roller.[1][2]

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

  1. ^ roller in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
  2. ^ roller in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

roller m or f

  1. indefinite plural of rolle

roller f

  1. indefinite plural of rolle

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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.

| | simple | compound | | | | | | | | ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | infinitive | roller | avoir rollé | | | | | | | gerund | en rollant | gerund of avoir + past participle | | | | | | | present participle | rollant | | | | | | | | past participle | rollé | | | | | | | | person | singular | plural | | | | | | | first | second | third | first | second | third | | | | indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | | | simpletenses | present | rol | rolles | rolle | rollons | rollez | rollent | | imperfect | rolloie, rolleie, rolloe, rolleve | rolloies, rolleies, rolloes, rolleves | rolloit, rolleit, rollot, rolleve | rolliiens, rolliens | rolliiez, rolliez | rolloient, rolleient, rolloent, rollevent | | | preterite | rollai | rollas | rolla | rollames | rollastes | rollerent | | | future | rollerai | rolleras | rollera | rollerons | rolleroiz, rollereiz, rollerez | rolleront | | | conditional | rolleroie, rollereie | rolleroies, rollereies | rolleroit, rollereit | rolleriiens, rolleriens | rolleriiez, rolleriez | rolleroient, rollereient | | | compoundtenses | present perfect | present tense of avoir + past participle | | | | | | | pluperfect | imperfect tense of avoir + past participle | | | | | | | | past anterior | preterite tense of avoir + past participle | | | | | | | | future perfect | future tense of avoir + past participle | | | | | | | | conditional perfect | conditional tense of avoir + past participle | | | | | | | | subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | | | simpletenses | present | rol | rous | rout | rollons | rollez | rollent | | imperfect | rollasse | rollasses | rollast | rollissons, rollissiens | rollissoiz, rollissez, rollissiez | rollassent | | | compoundtenses | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | | | | | | | pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | | | | | | | | imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | | | — | rolle | — | rollons | rollez | — | | |

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