rolling

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   uttered with a trill

   The teacher used rolling r's as in Spanish.

2. 2
   noun

   the act of robbing a helpless person

   They were charged with rolling drunks in the park.

3. 3
   adj

   Staggered in time and space.

   on a rolling basis

4. 4
   adj

   Moving by turning over and over about an axis.

   The rolling mist came down and hid the land: / And never home came she.

5. 5
   adj

   Extending in gentle undulations (of the landscape).

   From Blackwater there is a more or less level run through gently rolling farmlands and downs to Merstone, with its island platform and passing loop.

6. 6
   adj

   Ellipsis of rolling in it (“very wealthy”).

   Why one man who used to take me out, who was absolutely rolling, never tipped anyone.

7. 7
   noun

   The act by which something is rolled.

   Refrigerating the dough between rollings and foldings also makes the dough easy to handle and prevents the butter from becoming too soft.

8. 8
   noun

   propelling something on wheels

Etymology

By surface analysis, roll + -ing.