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/rˈɔɪlɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Roil v. t. (past & past part. roiled; pres. part. roiling)

To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of; as, to roil wine, cider, etc., in casks or bottles; to roil a spring.

To disturb, as the temper; to ruffle the temper of; to rouse the passion of resentment in; to perplex. "That his friends should believe it, was what roiled him (Judge Jeffreys) exceedingly." Note: Provincial in England and colloquial in the United States. A commoner, but less approved, form is rile.

Roil v. i.

To wander; to roam. (Obs.)

To romp. (Prov. Eng.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... Commission will assess the value, without appeal or arbitration, of the property and rights ceded under the Armistice, and under the Treaty,—roiling-stock, the mercantile marine, river craft, cattle, the Saar mines, the property in ceded territory for which credit is to be ...

— The Economic Consequences of the Peace • John Maynard Keynes