ROLL (O. Fr. rolle, roulle, mod. role, Lat. rotulus, dim. of rota, wheel)

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ROLL (O. Fr. rolle, roulle, mod. role, Lat. rotulus, dim. of rota, wheel) , something rolled or wound up in a cylindrical form on an

axis

AXIS (Lat. for " axle ")

, or something which " rolls," that is, moves or is moved along a service by a turning motion. Primarily the word is used of a piece of writing material, such as parchment or

paper

PAPER
PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

, rolled up for the purpose of convenient storage, handling, &c. This is the meaning of the Med. Lat. rotulus, defined by Du Cange as " Scheda, charta in speciem rotulae seu rotae convoluta." It was thus the convenient name for any document kept in this form as an official

record

RECORD (Lat. recordari, to recall to mind, from cor, heart or mind)

, and hence for any

record

RECORD (Lat. recordari, to recall to mind, from cor, heart or mind)

, catalogue or official

list

LIST (O.E.
lisle
- LISLE, ALICE (c. 1614-1685)
, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr.
lisle
- LISLE, ALICE (c. 1614-1685)
)
LIST,
FRIEDRICH
- FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )
(1789-1846)

. " The Rolls " was the name of the building where the records of the Chancery Court were kept, the keeper of which was the Master (q.v.) of the Rolls, now the title of the third member of the English Supreme Court of Judicature. Other

familiar

FAMILIAR (through the Fr. familier, from Lat. familiaris, of or belonging to the familia, family)

examples of the use of the word in this sense are the

list

of those admitted as qualified solicitors, whence the phrase " to strike off the rolls, " of removal by the court of a solicitor for offences or delinquencies. There are numerous applications of the word to other objects packed in a cylindrical form, such as tobacco, cloth, &c., and particularly to a small loaf of bread rolled over before baking, the crust being thin and crisp and the crumb spongy.
In architecture a " roll " or "

scroll

SCROLL

" moulding is a moulding resembling a section of a roll or

scroll

SCROLL

of parchment with the end overlapping; a " roll and fillet " moulding is a section of a cylindrical moulding with a square fillet running along the centre of the face (see LABEL). For the sense of an object that rolls, the word " roller " is more general, but " roll " is frequent in technical usage for revolving cylinders, especially when working in fixed bearings. For the

rolling

ROLLING

of steel see

ROLLING

ROLLING

MILL.

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