Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) One who, or that which, rolls; especially, a cylinder, sometimes grooved, of wood, stone, metal, etc., used in husbandry and the arts. 2. (n.) A bandage; a fillet; properly, a long and broad bandage used in surgery. 3. (n.) One of series of long, heavy waves which roll in upon a coast, sometimes in calm weather. 4. (n.) A long, belt-formed towel, to be suspended on a rolling cylinder; -- called also roller towel. 5. (n.) A cylinder coated with a composition made principally of glue and molasses, with which forms of type are inked previously to taking an impression from them. 6. (n.) A long cylinder on which something is rolled up; as, the roller of a man. 7. (n.) A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc. 8. (n.) Any insect whose larva rolls up leaves; a leaf roller. See Tortrix. 9. (n.) Any one of numerous species of Old World picarian birds of the family Coraciadae. The name alludes to their habit of suddenly turning over or tumbling in flight. 10. (n.) Any species of small ground snakes of the family Tortricidae. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia ROLLER rol'-er: the King James Version and the English Revised Version in Ezekiel 30:21 for chittul, "bandage" (so the American Standard Revised Version). "Roller" was formerly a technical term in surgery for a wide bandage.

Multi-Version Concordance Roller (2 Occurrences) Proverbs 26:27 Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And the roller of a stone, to him it turneth. (YLT) Isaiah 28:28 Bread grain is ground; for he will not be always threshing it: and though the wheel of his cart and his horses scatter it, he doth not grind it. (See JPS)