roller : Idioms & Phrases

• a roller sieve used in machines for making paper, to press out water from the pulp, and set the paper.

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• (Printing), the roller which conveys or supplies ink to another roller.

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• noun common European blue-and-green roller with a reddish-brown back
  Coracias garrulus.
  

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• (Carding Machine), a clothed cylinder (usually having straight teeth) in front of the doffer.

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• balls or rollers placed so as to receive the pressure or weight of bodies in motion, and relieve friction, as in the hub of a bicycle wheel.

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• noun heavy cast-iron cylinder used to flatten lawns
  

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• noun Madagascan roller with terrestrial and crepuscular habits that feeds on e.g. insects and worms
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of Madagascar rollers belonging to Atelornis and allied genera. They are nocturnal birds, and feed on the ground.

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• noun one who spends lavishly and ostentatiously on entertainment
  big spender.
  
  • the last of the big spenders
• noun a gambler who wagers large sums
  

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• noun a member of a religion that expresses ecstatic fervor
  

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• a somewhat elastic roller,used to spread ink over forms of type, copperplates, etc.

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• noun moth whose larvae form nests by rolling and tying leaves with spun silk
  leaf roller.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the larva of any tortricid moth which makes a nest by rolling up the leaves of plants. See Tortrix.

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• noun moth whose larvae form nests by rolling and tying leaves with spun silk
  leaf roller.
  

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• noun a roller that has an absorbent surface used for spreading paint
  

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• noun a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs
  druggist; pill pusher; apothecary; pharmacist; chemist.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any Australian bird of the genus Gymnorhina, esp. G. tibicen, which is black and white, and the size of a small crow. Called also caruck.

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• noun vehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavements
  steamroller.
  

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• a heavy roller, or combinations of rollers, for making earth, macadam, or concrete roads smooth and compact. often driven by steam.

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• noun bandage consisting of a strip of sterile fabric (of variable width) rolled into a cylinder to facilitate application
  

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• noun bearings containing small metal balls
  ball bearing; needle bearing.
  

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• noun a drill bit that has hardened rotating rollers
  rock bit.
  

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• noun a window shade that rolls up out of the way
  

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• the bar in a carriage to which the traces are attached; a whiffletree. Eng.

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• noun anything characterized by abrupt and extreme changes (especially up and down)
  
  • the economy has been on a roller coaster all year
• noun elevated railway in an amusement park (usually with sharp curves and steep inclines)
  chute-the-chute; big dipper.
  

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• a cotton gin inn which rolls are used for separating the seeds from the fiber.

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• . See under Mill.

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• noun a shoe with pairs of rollers fixed to the sole
  
• verb travel on shoes with steel or rubber rollers attached to their soles
  roller skate.
  
  • In some fashionable restaurants, the waiters roller skate around

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• a skate which has small wheels in the place of the metallic runner; designed for use in skating upon a smooth, hard surface, other than ice.

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• noun skating on wheels
  
• verb travel on shoes with steel or rubber rollers attached to their soles
  roller skate.
  
  • In some fashionable restaurants, the waiters roller skate around

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• noun a towel with the ends sewn together, hung on a roller
  

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• noun someone who engages in roller skating
  

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• (Mil.), a large gabion, six or seven feet long, filled with fascines, which the sapper sometimes rolls along before him for protection from the fire of an enemy.

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• one of a pair of rollers furnished with ribs entering between similar ribs in the other roller, and cutting like shears, used in slitting metals.

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) An American fresh-water fish (Catostomus nigricans) of the Sucker family. Its color is yellowish olive, often with dark blotches. Called also stone lugger, stone toter, hog sucker, hog mullet. (b) A common American cyprinoid fish (Campostoma anomalum); called also stone lugger.

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of moths whose larvæ roll up, and feed upon, the leaves of the strawberry vine; especially, Phoxopteris fragariæ, and Eccopsis permundana.

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