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Roll out   /roʊl aʊt/   Listen
Roll out

verb
1.
Flatten or spread with a roller.  Synonym: roll.
2.
Straighten by unrolling.  Synonym: straighten.






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"Roll out" Quotes from Famous Books



... looks innocence itself and creates a diversion by throwing pieces of roll out over the lattice to the street children, whose black eyes and black fingers appear through the slats. Each piece is received with squeals, a grand rush and protracted squabbling, and finally the more audacious ...
— Under the Southern Cross • Elizabeth Robins

... roll dough and then break off into pieces weighing about twelve ounces. Mould into balls and then cover and let spring for ten minutes. Now roll out the dough one-half inch thick with rolling pin and cut into five-inch squares. Cut each square into a triangle and brush lightly with shortening. Roll from the cut side towards the point, lapping the point closely. Form into crescent when setting in well-greased pan, brush with shortening ...
— Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book - Numerous New Recipes Based on Present Economic Conditions • Mary A. Wilson

... coarse hand between me and the woman I love. No more deception! Carl Feuerstein"—how he did roll out that name!—"can guard his own honor and ...
— The Fortune Hunter • David Graham Phillips

... old lady's place. Want I should drive in?" "No, thank you. I'll roll out here. Much obliged to you. ...
— The Troll Garden and Selected Stories • Willa Cather

... in a tower) till the seed is ripe and the time comes for it to be shaken out of the shell or pod. A further practical reason for the prevalence of spherical form in seeds is that they may, when the outer covering or husk perishes, more readily roll out and fall into the interstices of the ground; or when, as in the case of various fruits, such as the apple and orange, the envelope itself is spherical and intended to carry their flat or pointed seeds to the ground, where it ...
— Line and Form (1900) • Walter Crane

... negative quantity to make them buxom wenches; and there are women who are, as it were, already the ebauche of a good sturdy man. If nature cou'd be puzzl'd, it will be how to bestow the redundant matter of the exuberant bubbies that now appear about town, or how to roll out the short ...
— The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers • Jonathan Swift

... for his clothes as his small ebullition subsided to a misleading composure. "Storm's here at last, and we'll have to be moving. Roll out and saddle your ridge-runners; Annie's got ...
— The Phantom Herd • B. M. Bower



Words linked to "Roll out" :   cog, unwind, disentangle, mill, flatten



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