资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Roll \Roll\, v. i.
   1. To move, as a curved object may, along a surface by
      rotation without sliding; to revolve upon an axis; to turn
      over and over; as, a ball or wheel rolls on the earth; a
      body rolls on an inclined plane.

            And her foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical
            stone, which rolls, and rolls, and rolls. --Shak.

   2. To move on wheels; as, the carriage rolls along the
      street. ``The rolling chair.'' --Dryden.

   3. To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball; as, the
      cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.

   4. To fall or tumble; -- with over; as, a stream rolls over a
      precipice.

   5. To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with
      a revolution; as, the rolling year; ages roll away.

   6. To turn; to move circularly.

            And his red eyeballs roll with living fire.
                                                  --Dryden.

   7. To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and
      depression.

            What different sorrows did within thee roll.
                                                  --Prior.

   8. To incline first to one side, then to the other; to rock;
      as, there is a great difference in ships about rolling; in
      a general semse, to be tossed about.

            Twice ten tempestuous nights I rolled. --Pope.

   9. To turn over, or from side to side, while lying down; to
      wallow; as, a horse rolls.

   10. To spread under a roller or rolling-pin; as, the paste
       rolls well.

   11. To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can
       scarcely be distinguished by the ear.

   12. To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise; as, the thunder
       rolls.

   {To roll about}, to gad abroad. [Obs.]

            Man shall not suffer his wife go roll about.
                                                  --Chaucer.