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Lucidonio said, because, "by the time the meat gets hot enough inside the roll, the roll is a brick."

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  1. intransitive verb To move forward along a surface by revolving on an axis or by repeatedly turning over.
  2. intransitive verb To travel or be moved on wheels or rollers: rolled down the sidewalk on their scooters.
  3. intransitive verb To travel around; wander: roll from town to town.
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  • Almost the last in the roll was the name Graham had hoped and feared might be there. —  Astounding Stories January, 1935
  • Continue to wrap the screen wire around the pencil until the roll is the same diameter as the outside diameter of the barrel on your weapon. —  Murder Inc. Book
  • In her memoir of 1950s American suburban life, Margaret Halsey recalled trying on 'a silk print which, worn with very high heels and my hair in French roll, makes me look properly carnal ... as if I had my mind on lower things '.
  • Lucidonio said, because, "by the time the meat gets hot enough inside the roll, the roll is a brick." —  Philly.com - Latest Videos
  • Wilson is what we named the roll of toilet paper Bob keeps at his side due to the most disgusting case of allergies I have ever seen —  seMissourian.com Headlines
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roll:   rolls ·  rolled ·  rolling
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English rollen, from Old French roler, from Vulgar Latin *rotulāre, from Latin rotula, diminutive of rota, wheel; see ret- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also rowl, rowle, roule; from Middle English rollen, rolen (= Dutch rollen = Middle High German rolen, German rollen = Icelandic rolla = Danish rulle = Swedish rulla), from Old French roler, roller, rueler, roeler, rouler, French rouler, F. dial, roler, roller, roll, roll up, roll along, go on wheels, = Provencal rolar, rotlar = Catalan rotolar = Spanish rollar, rular = Portuguese rolar = Italian rotolare, rullare, from Middle Latin rotulare, roll, revolve, from Latin rotula, a little wheel, diminutive of rota, a wheel: see rota. Cf. roll, n.
  2. Early modern English also rowl, rowle, roule; from Middle English rolle = Middle Dutch rol, Dutch rol = Middle Low German rol = Middle High German rolle, rulle, German rolle = Swedish rulla = Danish rulle, from Old French rolle, roele, roule, French róle (see rôle) = Provencal rolle, rotlle, rutle = Catalan rotllo = Spanish rol, a list, roll, rollo, a roll, record, = Portuguese rolo, rol = Italian ruolo, rullo, ruotolo, rotolo, a roll, list, from Middle Latin rotulus, a roll, list, catalogue, schedule, record, prop, a paper or parchment rolled up (cf. volume, ult. from Latin volvere, roll); cf. rotulare, roll up: see roll, v. The Middle Latin rotulus, a roll, is partly from the verb, and not wholly identical with L. rotulus, also rotula, a little wheel, from which the verb is derived. In the later senses directly from the modern verb.
 

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