rolling
//ˈɹəʊ.lɪŋ//
Forms
- Comparative
- more rolling
- Superlative
- most rolling
- Plural
- rollings
Definitions
1.Drunk; intoxicated from alcohol, staggering.(colloquial)
2.Staggered in time and space.
3.Moving by turning over and over about an axis.
- The rolling mist came down and hid the land: / And never home came she.
4.Extending in gentle undulations (of the landscape).
- From Blackwater there is a more or less level run through gently rolling farmlands and downs to Merstone, with its island platform and passing loop.
1.present participle and gerund of roll
1.The act by which something is rolled.
- Refrigerating the dough between rollings and foldings also makes the dough easy to handle and prevents the butter from becoming too soft.
2.A technique in which players rhythmically tap the underside of the controller with one hand while holding the thumb of the other on the d-pad so as to perform several button presses a second.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4723
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Word family
Etymology
By surface analysis, roll + -ing.