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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

... Danbys, including Charity with Baby Jamie in her arms, had assembled to wash their hands and faces at the battered green pump under the shed, where, on a long, low bench, were two yellow earthenware basins, and a saucer containing a few fragments of brown soap, while on the wall hung a roller-towel that already was on very familiar terms with Danby faces and hands. The general toilet had been rather a noisy one, owing partly to the baby objecting to having soap in its eyes, and partly to the fact that too many required the services of the Danby roller at the same instant, ...

— Donald and Dorothy • Mary Mapes Dodge

... ordered every West Pointer to do his turn with the sappers and miners as well as his other duty. This brought forth a respectful protest from the enormously fat Chief Commissary, who said he could only be used as a sap-roller (the big roller sappers shove protectingly before them when snipers get their range). The real sap-rollers came to grief when an ingenious Confederate stuffed port-fires with turpentined cotton and shot them into rollers only a few yards off. But after this the Federals ...

— Captains of the Civil War - A Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray, Volume 31, The - Chronicles Of America Series • William Wood

... oats, harrows, and rolls it in. Little Leopoldine comes and wants to sit on the roller. Sit on a roller?—nay, she's all too little and unknowing for that yet. Her brothers know better. There's no ...

— Growth of the Soil • Knut Hamsun

... belaying-pin nearest at hand when a foaming deluge of water hissed and swirled past and over them, the breaker of which it formed a part sweeping from under the smack down toward the wreck in an unbroken wall of green water, capped with a white and ominously curling crest. The roller broke just as it reached the wreck, expending its full force upon her already shattered hull; the black mass was seen to heel almost completely over in the midst of the wildly tossing foam, there was a dull report, almost like ...

— The Pirate Island - A Story of the South Pacific • Harry Collingwood

... know the difference between a dish-cloth and a tea-cloth; but in that case your nurse has been better instructed than you, and she will tell you all about it.) And just as eight hands and one pair of claws were being dried on the roller-towel behind the scullery door there came a strange sound from the other side of the kitchen wall—the side where the nursery was. It was a very strange sound, indeed—most odd, and unlike any other sounds the children had ever heard. At least, they had heard ...

— The Phoenix and the Carpet • E. Nesbit

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