Usually means: Cylinder rotates to move objects.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word Roller:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. roller: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. roller: Merriam-Webster
  3. roller, roller: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. roller, roller: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. roller: Collins English Dictionary
  6. roller: Vocabulary.com
  7. Roller, roller: Wordnik
  8. roller: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Roller: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. Roller, roller: Wiktionary
  11. roller: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. roller: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. roller: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. roller: Dictionary.com
  15. roller (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. roller: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Roller (April Wine song), Roller (BEAM), Roller (Transformers), Roller (agricultural tool), Roller (brush), Roller (disambiguation), Roller (pigeon), Roller, The Roller: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Roller: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. roller: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. roller: Rhymezone
  21. roller, roller (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. roller: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. roller: FreeDictionary.org
  24. roller: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. roller: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. Roller: Marquetry Glossary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Roller (brush): Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Roller (bird), Roller (brush), roller: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. roller: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Roller: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  4. Roller (bird), Roller (brush), Roller: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. roller: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ROLLER: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Roller: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. roller, Roller: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Roller: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. roller (rolla): Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Roller)

noun:  (heading) Anything that rolls.
noun:  Any rotating cylindrical device that is part of a machine, especially one used to apply or reduce pressure.
noun:  A cylindrical (or approximately cylindrical) item used under a heavy object to facilitate moving it; usually several are needed.
noun:  A person who rolls something, such as cigars or molten metal.
noun:  (cricket) A large rolling device used to flatten the surface of the pitch.
noun:  A cylindrical tool for applying paint or ink.
noun:  An agricultural machine used for flattening land and breaking up lumps of earth.
noun:  One of a set of small cylindrical tubes used to curl hair.
noun:  A roller towel.
noun:  A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc.
noun:  A rolling element inside a roller bearing: a small cylinder or sphere of metal.
noun:  (cycling) One of a set of rolling cylinders allowing a rider to practise balance while training indoors.
noun:  Any insect whose larva rolls up leaves, especially those in family Tortricidae.
noun:  A dung beetle that rolls dung into balls.
noun:  A cylinder snakes, small ground snakes of the genus Cylindrophis.
noun:  A rolling pin
noun:  (disc golf) A throw which involves the player throwing the disc in a way that makes it roll, by that being able to travel further than if thrown in the air. Only used on holes with open areas with short or no grass.
noun:  A long wide bandage used in surgery.
noun:  A large, wide, curling wave that falls back on itself as it breaks on a coast.
noun:  (heading) A bird.
noun:  A breed or variety of roller pigeon that rolls (i.e. tumbles or somersaults) backwards (compare Penson roller, Birmingham roller, tumbler).
noun:  Any of various aggressive birds, of the family Coraciidae, having bright blue wings and hooked beaks.
noun:  A police patrol car or patrolman (rather than an unmarked police car or a detective)
noun:  A padded surcingle that is used on horses for training and vaulting.
noun:  (television, film) A roll of titles or (especially) credits played over film or video; television or film credits.
noun:  (slang) A wheelchair user.
noun:  (slang, informal) A Rolls-Royce motorcar.
noun:  (slang, music) A type break that consists of drum rolls; a drum and bass track made with such breaks.
verb:  (intransitive) To roller skate.
noun:  (slang) A Rolls-Royce car

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