roll

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis

   The bowler rolled the ball.

2. 2
   verb

   move, rock, or sway from side to side

   The ship rolled on the heavy seas

3. 3
   verb

   move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle

   The President's convoy rolled past the crowds

4. 4
   verb

   emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound

   The thunder rolled

5. 5
   verb

   occur in soft rounded shapes

   The hills rolled past

6. 6
   noun

   a document that can be rolled up for storage

   I put the roll into its cannister.

7. 7
   noun

   a list of names

   Your name was struck off the rolls.

8. 8
   noun

   a roll of currency notes, often taken as the resources of a person or business

   I shot my roll on a bob-tailed nag.

Etymology

From Middle English rollen, partly from Old French roller, roler, röeler, röoler, from Medieval Latin rotulāre (“to roll; to revolve”), from Latin rotula (“a little wheel”), diminutive of rota (“a wheel”); partly from Anglo-Latin rollāre, from the same ultimate source. Displaced native English welt and partially displaced English wallow.