Definitions for roller

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roller roll·er

Spelling: [roh-ler]

IPA: /ˈroʊ lər/

Roller is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in roller (ellorr).

Definitions for roller

noun

1. a person or thing that rolls.
2. a cylinder, wheel, caster, or the like, upon which something is rolled along.
3. a cylindrical body, revolving on a fixed axis, especially one to facilitate the movement of something passed over or around it.
4. a cylindrical object upon which something is rolled up:
5. a hollow, cylindrical object of plastic, stiff net, or the like, upon which hair is rolled up for setting.
6. a cylindrical body for rolling over something to be spread out, leveled, crushed, smoothed, compacted, impressed, inked, etc.
7. any of various other revolving cylindrical bodies, as the barrel of a music box.
8. Metalworking. a person in charge of a rolling mill.
9. a long, swelling wave advancing steadily.
10. a rolled bandage.
11. any of several Old World birds of the family Coraciidae that tumble or roll over in flight, especially in the breeding season.
12. tumbler (def 9).
13. one of a variety of canaries having a warbling or trilling song.

Origin of roller

late Middle English word dating back to 1375-1425; See origin at roll, -er¹

Examples for roller

Other times a chorus on roller skates sings about a toy train set.

He was named in meeting; the name tossed from roller to roller.

The cloth is dyed by means of passing over a roller into a dye vat.

Well, that time has now come thanks to Fish on Wheels—a roller aquarium that lets fish drive.

She swung sideways on a roller, and gesticulated with her jib-boom from port to starboard.

A roller broke over the boat, and left a foot of water in the bottom.

My seven-year-old son still can't go on all the roller coasters he wants, because he is a few inches too short.

Such is said to have been the origin of roller printing on calico.

They're made to make a lot of money and to get teenagers in a kind of experience, a roller coaster ride.

His cadence is a steady beat rather than a roller coaster, and his words sparing and simple.