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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 466 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROLL (O. Fr. rolle, roulle, mod. role, See also:Lat. rotulus, dim. of See also:rota, See also:wheel)  , something rolled or See also:wound up in a cylindrical See also:form on an See also:axis, or something which " rolls," that is, moves or is moved along a service by a turning See also:motion . Primarily the word is used of a piece of See also:writing material, such as See also:parchment or See also:paper, rolled up for the purpose of convenient storage, handling, &c . This is the meaning of the Med . See also:Lat. rotulus, defined by Du Cange as " Scheda, charta in speciem rotulae seu rotae convoluta." It was thus the convenient name for any document kept in this form as an See also:official See also:record, and hence for any See also:register, record, See also:catalogue or official See also:list . " The Rolls " was the name of the See also:building where the records of the See also:Chancery See also:Court were kept, the keeper of which was the See also:Master (q.v.) of the Rolls, now the See also:title of the third member of the See also:English Supreme Court of Judicature . Other See also:familiar examples of the use of the word in this sense are the list of those admitted as qualified solicitors, whence the phrase " to strike off the rolls, " of removal by the court of a See also:solicitor for offences or delinquencies . There are numerous applications of the word to other See also:objects packed in a cylindrical form, such as See also:tobacco, See also:cloth, &c., and particularly to a small See also:loaf of See also:bread rolled over before See also:baking, the crust being thin and crisp and the crumb spongy . In See also:architecture a " See also:roll " or " See also:scroll " moulding is a moulding resembling a See also:section of a roll or scroll of parchment with the end overlapping; a " roll and See also:fillet " moulding is a section of a cylindrical moulding with a square fillet See also:running along the centre of the See also:face (see See also:LABEL) . For the sense of an See also:object that rolls, the word " See also:roller " is more See also:general, but " roll " is frequent in technical usage for revolving cylinders, especially when working in fixed See also:bearings . For the See also:rolling of See also:steel see ROLLING See also:MILL .

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