noun. In tea manufacture, in China and elsewhere, the operation of pressing the withered leaf, by an arduous manipulation (in modernized practice by machinery). The object is to burst the cells to promote oxidation (in black tea: see under tea) and to render the extractive matter subject to infusion. The curling or twisting of the leaf results incidentally.

Moving on wheels, or as if on wheels.

Making a continuous noise resembling the roll of a drum: as, a rolling fire of musketry.

Wavy; undulating; rising and falling in gentle slopes.

Turned over or down with the effect of a roll, or that may be so turned down.

noun. A reciprocating rotary motion about a fore-and-aft axis, more or less irregular, as of a ship at sea.

noun. Ornamenting, by means of a bookbinders' roll, the edges or inner covers of a full-bound book.

noun. Smoothing or polishing paper by means of calendering rollers.

noun. A method of taking trout.

noun. Same as roll, 5.

noun. A twist or partial knot by which the thread is secured to the bobbin in lace-making.

adjective. Rotating on an axis, or moving along a surface by rotation; turning over and over as if on an axis or a pivot.

adjective. Moving on wheels or rollers, or as if on wheels or rollers.

adjective. Having gradual, rounded undulations of surface.

adjective. See the Note under Drawbridge.

adjective. the circle described by the point whose velocity equals the velocity of the ship.

adjective. a discharge of firearms by soldiers in line, in quick succession, and in the order in which they stand.

adjective. that resistance to motion experienced by one body rolling upon another which arises from the roughness or other quality of the surfaces in contact.

adjective. a mill furnished with heavy rolls, between which heated metal is passed, to form it into sheets, rails, etc.

adjective. A printing press with a roller, used in copperplate printing.

adjective. the locomotives and vehicles of a railway.

adjective. undefined

adjective. tackle used to steady the yards when the ship rolls heavily.

verb. Present participle of roll.

noun. propelling something on wheels

adjective. uttered with a trill

noun. the act of robbing a helpless person

noun. a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)

"That's what you call the rolling the rock up the hill, Lisa."

direct rolling  friction of rolling  instantaneous center of rolling  rolling bridge  rolling circle  

pronounceable  rolling plant  

rolling in dough  rolling stock  

actuation  propulsion  robbery  sound  

bolling  bowling  cajoling  consoling  controlling  

acrobatics  advance  advancement  advancing  aerobatics  

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