Crossword-Solution: ROLL 4 letters, 674 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Roll	n.	To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface; as, to roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel.
Roll	n.	To wrap round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over; as, to roll a sheet of paper; to roll parchment; to roll clay or putty into a ball.
Roll	n.	To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to inwrap; -- often with up; as, to roll up a parcel.
Roll	n.	To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling; as, a river rolls its waters to the ocean.
Roll	n.	To utter copiously, esp. with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; -- often with forth, or out; as, to roll forth some one's praises; to roll out sentences.
Roll	n.	To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers; as, to roll a field; to roll paste; to roll steel rails, etc.
Roll	n.	To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
Roll	n.	To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
Roll	n.	To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in suck manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
Roll	n.	To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
Roll	v. i.	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.
Roll	v. i.	To move on wheels; as, the carriage rolls along the street.
Roll	v. i.	To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball; as, the cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.
Roll	v. i.	To fall or tumble; -- with over; as, a stream rolls over a precipice.
Roll	v. i.	To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution; as, the rolling year; ages roll away.
Roll	v. i.	To turn; to move circularly.
Roll	v. i.	To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
Roll	v. i.	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.
Roll	v. i.	To turn over, or from side to side, while lying down; to wallow; as, a horse rolls.
Roll	v. i.	To spread under a roller or rolling-pin; as, the paste rolls well.
Roll	v. i.	To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear.
Roll	v. i.	To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise; as, the thunder rolls.
Roll	v.	The act of rolling, or state of being rolled; as, the roll of a ball; the roll of waves.
Roll	v.	That which rolls; a roller.
Roll	v.	A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
Roll	v.	One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill; as, to pass rails through the rolls.
Roll	v.	That which is rolled up; as, a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.
Roll	v.	A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
Roll	v.	Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list.
Roll	v.	A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as, a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon.
Roll	v.	A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
Roll	v.	A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself.
Roll	v.	The oscillating movement of a vessel from side to side, in sea way, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching.
Roll	v.	A heavy, reverberatory sound; as, the roll of cannon, or of thunder.
Roll	v.	The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
Roll	v.	Part; office; duty; role.

We have 674 clues for the answer “ROLL”

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Move like a ball down a hill	1 answer
"Ham and cheese on a ___"	1 answer
"Heads will ___!"	1 answer
"Jelly" or "sausage" follower	1 answer
"Just ___ with it"	1 answer
"Let the good times ___!"	1 answer
"Shake, Rattle and ___"	1 answer
"Stop, drop and ___!"	1 answer
"That's how we ___"	1 answer
"__ Tide!": Alabama cheer	1 answer
"___ Over Beethoven"	1 answer
"___ on Texas Moon" (1947 Rogers movie)	1 answer
$10 worth of quarters	1 answer
$2 in nickels	1 answer
*Cinnabon unit	1 answer
*Writer of "O frabjous day!"	1 answer
40 quarters, e.g.	1 answer
50 pennies	1 answer
50 pennies, conveniently	1 answer
50 wrapped pennies	1 answer
List of names for attendance	1 answer
Aeronautics maneuver	1 answer
Airplane's complete rotation	1 answer
Attendance list	1 answer
BRIOCHE, FOR ONE	1 answer
Backgammon turn	1 answer
Bagel or bialy	1 answer
Bagel or bun	1 answer
Bagel or parkerhouse	1 answer
Bagel sans hole?	1 answer
Bagel, basically	1 answer
Bagel, for example	1 answer
Bagel, for one	1 answer
Baguette or croissant	1 answer
Baker's flute	1 answer
Bakery flute	1 answer
Barnstorming maneuver	1 answer
Be a bowler	1 answer
Beat for Ringo	1 answer
Bit of drum drama	1 answer
Bounty buy	1 answer
Bowler's shot	1 answer
Bread basket bun	1 answer
Bread basket choice	1 answer
Bread basket selection	1 answer
Bread register?	1 answer
Breadstick alternative	1 answer
Breadstick kin	1 answer
Breath Savers purchase	1 answer
Brioche, e.g.	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

REETA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with ROLL (5)

Darling, but he was totting up winter great-coats for John and Michael, with a wet towel around his head to keep his brain clear, and it seemed a shame to trouble him; besides, she knew exactly what he would say: “It all comes of having a dog for a nurse.” She decided to roll the shadow up and put it away carefully in a drawer, until a fitting opportunity came for telling her husband.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

With his own ghostly hand, the obscurely seen, but majestic, figure had imparted to me the scarlet symbol and the little roll of explanatory manuscript.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson Dell, 1988 ISBN 0-440-53981-1 This work of alleged fiction is an incredible berserko-surrealist rollercoaster of world-girdling conspiracies, intelligent dolphins, the fall of Atlantis, who really killed JFK, sex, drugs, rock'n'roll, and the Cosmic Giggle Factor.

The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

Think of me at this hour, in a strange place, labouring under a blackness of distress that no fancy can exaggerate, and yet well aware that, if you will but punctually serve me, my troubles will roll away like a story that is told.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 1992

The day after she came old Henry brought over on one of the pack-ponies a roll of Navajo blankets that belonged to Fred, and Thea lined her cave with them.

The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992

Quotes with ROLL (3)

In his suicide note, Kurt Cobain wrote, "It's better to burn out than to fade away." He was quoting a Neil Young song about Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols. When I was twenty-four, I interviewed John Lennon. I asked him about this sentiment, one that pervades rock and roll. He took strong, outraged exception to it. "It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out, "he said. "I worship people who survive. I'll take the living and the healthy.

David Sheff Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

I think I’m getting a notion of how to do this. O.K., a carnival works because people pay to feel amazed and scared. They can nibble around a midway getting amazed here and scared there, or both. And do you know what else? Hope. Hope they’ll win a prize, break the jackpot, meet a girl, hit a bull’s-eye in front of their buddies. In a carnival you call it luck or chance, but it’s the same as hope. Now hope is a good feeling that needs risk to work. How good it is depends on ho…

Katherine Dunn Geek Love

In the end I just let the dreams come and go, let whatever bliss or pain they brought roll through me.... Time wears away hope like water wears away rock. As for faith, I remained in a standoff with Isis. But love, as Paul of Tarsus would say, is greater than hope and faith. It can survive without either. Love was all I had, and it would not go away. It would not die even though sometimes I wished it would.

Elizabeth Cunningham The Passion of Mary Magdalen

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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 694 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).