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rolled

adjective US /roʊld/

especially of petals or leaves in bud; having margins rolled inward

How often you will meet it

Rank 1,665 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 10,935 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.005% of every word in the library.

What it means

adjective

  1. especially of petals or leaves in bud; having margins rolled inward also: involute
  2. uttered with a trill also: rolling, trilled she used rolling r's as in Spanish
  3. rolled up and secured also: furled furled sails bound securely to the spara furled flag

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary · Princeton WordNet 3.1

rolled in real books

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  • Big tears rolled down her withered cheeks.

    Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1

  • A lumberman: perchance, in hold Prostrate pines with hemlocks rolled.

    John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1

  • How he used to envy the members of the Elevens as they rolled arm-in-arm down the High Street!

    The Hill: A Romance of Friendship · Horace Annesley Vachell · Chapter 1

  • The Negro rolled and tossed out of the mass, only to be pushed back by the people nearest him.

    The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1

  • On the farther side of the hemlock belt the open country rolled away before them grey and lonely under the stars.

    Ethan Frome · Edith Wharton · Chapter 1

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