roll

To revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on a horizontal axis; to impel forward with a revolving motion on a supporting surface.ergative

• To roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel.
• The child will roll on the floor.

To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.ergative

• To roll a sheet of paper; to roll clay or putty into a ball.
• The cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.

To bind or involve by winding, as with a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.transitive

• To roll up the vase in bubble wrap.

To drive, impel, or flow onward with a steady, wave-like motion.ergativefigurativelysometimes

• This river will roll its waters to the ocean.
• The years roll on.

To pour or trickle.intransitive

• Drops of sweat rolled down his face.

To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out.ergative

• To roll forth someone's praises; to roll out sentences.

To press, level, spread, or form with a roller or rollers.ergative

• to roll a field; to roll paste; to roll steel rails.
• The pastry rolls well.

To move upon rollers or wheels.ergative

• We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.

To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.intransitive

To leave or begin a journey; sometimes with out.CanadaUScolloquial

• I want to get there early; let's roll.

The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.

• the roll of a ball
• Look at the roll of the waves.

Something formed into a compact shape by being rolled up.

• a roll of banknotes

A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.

Something which rolls.; A heavy cylinder used to break clods.

Something which rolls.; One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill.

• to pass rails through the rolls

A swagger or rolling gait.

A heavy, reverberatory sound.

• Hear the roll of cannon.
• There was a roll of thunder and the rain began to pour down.

The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.

The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching; or the equivalent in an aircraft.

The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis.

That which is rolled up.

• a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.

A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.

• Busy angels spread / The lasting roll, recording what we say.

An official or public document; a register; a record.

• As to the rolls of parliament, viz. the entry of the several petitions, answers and transactions in parliament. Those are generally and successively extant of record in the Tower

A catalogue or list, (especially) one kept for official purposes.

• The roll of solicitors contains the names of all admitted solicitors of a jurisdiction.
• Several people sued the state after finding out that they'd been removed from the voter rolls for having died, despite their not actually being dead.

A food preparation comprising one or more ingredients wrapped in, e.g., flatbread, lettuce leaf, etc.

A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.

• a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon

A cylindrical twist of tobacco.

A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.

• Well, then, fix it up nice, waiter, and make mine baked hash an’ mashed ’taters and stewed corn and waiter!—plain white bread, no fancy rolls!

A part; an office; a duty; a role.obsolete

• THE Methods of Government and of Humane Society, muſt be Preſerv’d, where Every Man has his Roll, and his Station Aſſign’d him ; and it is not for One Man to break in upon the Province of Another.

A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.

• Parchement is sold by the dozen, and by the roll of five dozens.