roller

noun

1. Anything that rolls.
2. Anything that rolls.
3. Anything that rolls.
4. Anything that rolls.
5. Anything that rolls.

   “The deposit of color on the stone is transmitted to the metal by the lithographic roller the same as for paper.”

6. Anything that rolls.
7. Anything that rolls.
8. Anything that rolls.
9. Anything that rolls.

   “The cable used for hauling the wagons on the incline may still be seen, but several of the guiding rollers have disappeared.”

10. Anything that rolls.
11. Anything that rolls.
12. Anything that rolls.
13. Anything that rolls.
14. Anything that rolls.
15. Anything that rolls.
16. Anything that rolls.

    “He threw a beautiful roller that cut the corner perfectly and stopped just outside the circle.”

17. A long wide bandage used in surgery.
18. A large, wide, curling wave that falls back on itself as it breaks on a coast.

    “He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend ; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits ; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous,[…].”

    “A road that runs due west from Dale passes the village church and Dale Castle, and a footpath continues to Westdale Bay, a sandy beach used by surfers when the westerlies send great rollers crashing in from the Atlantic.”

19. A bird.
20. A bird.

    “In such places I found a good many birds, among which were the fine cream-coloured pigeon, Carpophaga luctuosa, and the rare blue-headed roller, Coracias temmincki, which has a most discordant voice, and generally goes in pairs, flying from tree to tree, and exhibiting while at rest that all-in-a-heap appearance and jerking motion of the head and tail which are so characteristic of the great Fissirostral group to which it belongs.”

21. A police patrol car or patrolman (rather than an unmarked police car or a detective)
22. A padded surcingle that is used on horses for training and vaulting.
23. A roll of titles or (especially) credits played over film or video; television or film credits.

    “I learned a lot from watching, but the part that I should have studied harder was the roller. The names of the writers went on for ever.”

24. (slang)A wheelchair user.
25. (informal, slang)A Rolls-Royce motorcar.
26. (slang)A type break that consists of drum rolls; a drum and bass track made with such breaks.
27. (slang)A Rolls-Royce car

    “Only I thought private eyes were supposed to be discreet; you could hardly call yourself that when you drive a Roller.”

verb

1. (intransitive)To roller skate.

   “One day Frankie rollered up our drive and asked me if I fancied a skate.”