Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
n.) One who, or that which, rolls; especially, a cylinder, sometimes grooved, of wood, stone, metal, etc., used in husbandry and the arts.
2. (n.) A bandage; a fillet; properly, a long and broad bandage used in surgery.
3. (n.) One of series of long, heavy waves which roll in upon a coast, sometimes in calm weather.
4. (n.) A long, belt-formed towel, to be suspended on a rolling cylinder; -- called also roller towel.
5. (n.) A cylinder coated with a composition made principally of glue and molasses, with which forms of type are inked previously to taking an impression from them.
6. (n.) A long cylinder on which something is rolled up; as, the roller of a man.
7. (n.) A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc.
8. (n.) Any insect whose larva rolls up leaves; a leaf roller. See Tortrix.
9. (n.) Any one of numerous species of Old World picarian birds of the family Coraciadae. The name alludes to their habit of suddenly turning over or tumbling in flight.
10. (n.) Any species of small ground snakes of the family Tortricidae.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
ROLLERrol'-er: the King James Version and the English Revised Version in Ezekiel 30:21 for chittul, "bandage" (so the American Standard Revised Version). "Roller" was formerly a technical term in surgery for a wide bandage.
Greek
4972. sphragizo -- to seal ... 4972 (from 4973 , "a seal") -- properly, to seal (affix) with a signet ring or other
instrument to stamp (a
roller or seal), ie to , () what is sealed.
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2848. chittul -- a bandage... Word Origin from chathal Definition a bandage NASB Word Usage bandage (1).
roller.
From chathal; swathed, ie A bandage --
roller. see HEBREW chathal.
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'According To' --I.
... There goes the great steam-roller along the road. ... and ye would not,' and your 'would
not' neutralises His 'would.' Do not stand in the way of the steam-roller. ...
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'Lying Vanities'
... passeth away,' as the Apostle John puts it, in a forcible expression which likens
all this frame of things to a panorama being unwound from one roller and on ...
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Philip and the Desposyni
... the deep blue, and the white pelicans winging their way to the lake beneath, and
the playful, crested hoopoes, and the bright flash of the roller-bird, which ...
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Greek and Jew
... The second servant drew a cord and a roller of matting lifted and showed a skylight.
Philadelphus the pretender was in the andronitis of a Greek house. ...
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Shoes of Iron, and Strength Sufficient: a New Year's Promise
... We are pilgrims. We journey along a road which has not been smoothed by a
steam-roller, but remains rough and rugged as the path to an Alpine summit. ...
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Psalm LVI.
... [2101] Within he is, he shall sojourn and hide: suppose chaff is near thee, let
there come in the treading of oxen, let there come in the roller of temptations ...
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The Cause and Cure of a Wounded Spirit
... says one. I suppose that you would like to run a steam-roller across the
room just for the sake of strengthening their nerves! But ...
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Synagogues: their Origin, Structure and Outward Arrangements
... the Pentateuch is written, is affixed to two rollers, and as each portion of the
law is read it is unrolled from the right, and rolled on to the left roller. ...
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Christian Cemeteries.
... According to an ingenious hypothesis of Bottari, adopted by de Rossi, the Paneas
group is represented on the Lateran sarcophagus, engraved by Roller in the ...
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Thesaurus
Roller (2 Occurrences)... in calm weather. 4. (n.) A long, belt-formed towel, to be suspended on
a rolling cylinder; -- called also
roller towel. 5. (n.) A
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... 6. (n.) To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller,
or rollers; as, to roll a field; to roll paste; to roll steel rails, etc. ...
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Cot (3 Occurrences)
... cote. 3. (n.) A cover or sheath; as, a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing
roller in a spinning frame); a cot for a sore finger. 4 ...
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Rolled (38 Occurrences)
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Wheel (20 Occurrences)
... proposed are end-less. (3) gilgal, Isaiah 28:28, the roller of a threshing
wagon. (4) 'obhnayim, Jeremiah 18:3. See POTTER. (5) pa`am ...
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Repeat (10 Occurrences)
... 5. (n.) That which is repeated; as, the repeat of a pattern; that is, the repetition
of the engraved figure on a roller by which an impression is produced (as ...
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Rolleth (2 Occurrences)
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Eventually (2 Occurrences)
... Nay, he will not ever be threshing it; and though the roller of his wagon and
its sharp edges move noisily, he doth not crush it. (See NAS). ...
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Digging (8 Occurrences)
... made. (See RSV). Proverbs 26:27 Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And
the roller of a stone, to him it turneth. (YLT). Ecclesiastes ...
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Distribute (23 Occurrences)
... 4. (vt) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes
in the cases. 5. (vt) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table. ...
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