Roller

Quick meaning: Roller is a noun meaning (heading) Anything that rolls.

Meaning

(heading) Anything that rolls.

More Meanings

1. A long wide bandage used in surgery.
2. A large, wide, curling wave that falls back on itself as it breaks on a coast.
3. (heading) A bird.
4. A police patrol car or patrolman (rather than an unmarked police car or a detective)
5. A padded surcingle that is used on horses for training and vaulting.
6. (television, film) A roll of titles or (especially) credits played over film or video; television or film credits.
7. (slang) A wheelchair user.

Example Sentences

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

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.

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.

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,[…].

Word Forms

• rollers
• rollering
• rollered

Synonyms for roller

Depending on context, synonyms include roll, tumbler, curler.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include curler, roll, tumbler, bulldozer, chassis, steamroller.

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