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Meanings of roller in English

Catalan
rul·lo

A mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it.

        rul·lo
        Spanish
        volteadora

        Pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground.

              volteadora

              A long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore.

                    Usage of roller in English
                    1
                    The roller work was almost done; next came the nit-picky brush work.
                    Love- from his point of view!
                    2
                    The inclination of the arm to the roller is shown in Fig.
                    Things To Make
                    3
                    The final step is to clean the roller thoroughly with warm water.
                    The South African
                    4
                    The measuring roller in these machines is usually one yard in circumference.
                    The Jute Industry: From Seed to Finished Cloth
                    5
                    We kind of rode the roller coaster week in and week out.
                    Reuters
                    6
                    I ran the roller over the lumps; then harrowed, rolled, and harrowed.
                    The Story of the Soil; from the Basis of Absolute Science and Re...
                    7
                    It's fair to say it's been something of a roller-coaster ride since.
                    Independent.ie
                    8
                    I laid off, and Miles Diston took the high-roller out next trip.
                    Danger Signals / Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the...
                    9
                    It's a roller-skate based sport which involves two teams of 15 players.
                    The South African
                    10
                    Its popularity eclipsed even that of the soap-slide and the roller skates.
                    A harum-scarum schoolgirl
                    11
                    He afterwards added the inking roller and table to the common press.
                    James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography
                    12
                    Moving his hands along the rail, he came to a metal roller.
                    Hellfire
                    13
                    Farewells were private, screened from the media scrum by closed roller doors.
                    News.com.au
                    14
                    There were two blank sheets in the roller, with a carbon between.
                    Half a Rogue
                    15
                    The seamen passed much of their time roller-skating on the landing deck.
                    The new yorker
                    16
                    Thorp had also heard that Meriwether was something of a high roller.
                    The quants: how a new breed of math whizzes conquered wall stree...
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