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rvæ of which usually roll up the leaves of plants on which they live; -- also called leaf roller.

The stone roller. See Stone roller (a), under Stone.

One who tramps; a stroller; a vagrant or vagabond; a tramp. Dickens.

A stroller; a loiterer; esp., an idle, untidy woman; a slattern; a slut; a whore.

A frame on low wheels or rollers; -- used for various purposes, as for a movable support for heavy bodies.

A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.

An ink-distributing roller in a printing machine, having an additional vibratory motion.

; good-humored sarcasm; pleasantry; jocularity; as, the waggery of a schoolboy. Locke. A drollery and lurking waggery of expression. W. Irving.

The state of being warped or twisted; as, the warp of a board. Warp beam, the roller on which the warp is wound in a loom. -- Warp fabric, fabric produced by warp knitting. -- Warp frame, or Warp-net frame, a machine for making warp lace having a number of needles and employing a thread for each needle. -- Warp knit…

One who wields or employs; a manager; a controller. A wielder of the great arm of the war. Milton.

and nothing else. Reid. Appetite is the will's solicitor, and the will is appetite's controller; what we covet according to the one, by the other we often reject. Hooker. The will is plainly that by which the mind chooses anything. J. Edwards.

A machine for raising weights, consisting of a horizontal cylinder or roller moving on its axis, and turned by a crank, lever, or similar means, so as to wind up a rope or chain attached to the weight. In vessels the windlass is often used instead of the capstan for raising the anchor. It is usually set upon the foreca…

d of metal; a metallic substance formed to an even thread by being passed between grooved rollers, or drawn through holes in a plate of steel.