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Unroll v. t. (Written also unrol)

To open, as what is rolled or convolved; as, to unroll cloth; to unroll a banner.

To display; to reveal.

To remove from a roll or register, as a name. "If I make not this cheat bring out another... let me be unrolled and my name put in the book of virtue!"

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Unroll" Quotes from Famous Books

... without having the courage to avow his assent. Of his hero he says, "Bunsen's enduring glory is neither to have faltered with his conscience, nor shrunk from the difficulties of the problem, but to have brought a vast erudition, in the light of a Christian conscience, to unroll tangled records; tracing frankly the Spirit of God elsewhere, but borrowing chiefly the ...

— History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology • John F. Hurst

... said to the clergyman, in a soft voice, "I'll open the swag." He commenced to unroll it—it was a big blanket—and when he got to the end there were his own trousers—the lost ones, nothing more. Dad's eyes met Mother's; Dave's met Sal's; none of them spoke. But the clergyman drew his own conclusions; and on the following Sunday, at Nobby-Nobby, ...

— On Our Selection • Steele Rudd

... all, what a useless life his had been. The road he had travelled seemed white with the skeletons of broken hopes. In the glowing coals he saw the pageant of his past unroll itself. He had never been quite the normal person. His father was a minor poet, and for as long as he could remember his house had been full of literary people. Arthur Symons and George Moore had ...

— The Loom of Youth • Alec Waugh

... identical with the name of a small town in Obertfalz. Finally, the name of the town Hirschau occurs to me, and now I easily associate backwards, "Schaller von Hirschau.'' It is, of course, natural that words should unroll themselves forwards with habitual ease, but backwards only when we think of the word we are trying to remember, as written, and then associate the whole as a MS. image. This is unhappily difficult ...

— Robin Hood • J. Walker McSpadden

... don't!" Kendricks replied. "No man is safe with such a woman as Madame Christophor. But let it go. We dine together to-night. I'll tell you some news then. I'm going to unroll a plan of campaign. There's work for you, if you like it;—nothing formulated as yet, ...

— The Mischief Maker • E. Phillips Oppenheim

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