roller
noun/ˈrəʊlə(r)/
/ˈrəʊlər/
- a piece of wood, metal or plastic, like a tube in shape, that rolls over and over, used as a tool or as part of a machine, for example to make something flat or to move something
- Flatten the surface of the grass with a roller.
- a paint roller
- the heavy steel rollers under the conveyor belt
- We'll need to move the piano on rollers.
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- a long, powerful wave in the sea
- Huge Atlantic rollers crashed onto the rocks.
- a small plastic tube that hair is rolled around to make it curly synonym curler
- heated rollers
- in rollers Her hair was in rollers.
see also high roller
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