Word Meanings - ROLLWAY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A place prepared for rolling logs into a stream.

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• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• ROLLEY
  A small wagon used for the underground work of a mine. Tomlison.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• ROLLABLE
  Capable of being rolled.
• ROLLING-PIN
  A cylindrical piece of wood or other material, with which paste or dough may be rolled out and reduced to a proper thickness.
• ROLL
  To apply to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of into successive contact with another, in suck manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal. 10. To turn over in one's mind; to revolve. Full oft in
• PREPARATIVELY
  By way of preparation.
• STREAMLET
  A small stream; a rivulet; a rill.
• STREAM WHEEL
  A wheel used for measuring, by its motion when submerged, the velocity of flowing water; a current wheel.
• PLACER
  One who places or sets. Spenser.
• PLACE
  Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe
• PLACENTA
  The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth. Note: In most mammals the placenta is principally developed from the allantois and chorion, and tufts of vascular villi
• STREAM CLOCK
  An instrument for ascertaining the velocity of the blood in a vessel.
• ROLLWAY
  A place prepared for rolling logs into a stream.
• ROLLER
  One of series of long, heavy waves which roll in upon a coast, sometimes in calm weather. 4. A long, belt-formed towel, to be suspended on a rolling cylinder; -- called also roller towel. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, rolls; especially,
• PLACEMAN
  One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government. Sir W. Scott.
• STREAM LINE
  The path of a constituent particle of a flowing fluid undisturbed by eddies or the like.
• STREAMLINE
  Of or pert. to a stream line; designating a motion or flow that is free from turbulence, like that of a particle in a streamline; hence, designating a surface, body, etc., that is designed so as to afford an unbroken flow of a fluid about it, esp.
• PLACENTIOUS
  Pleasing; amiable. "A placentious person." Fuller.
• TROLLEY; TROLLY
  A form of truck which can be tilted, for carrying railroad materials, or the like. A narrow cart that is pushed by hand or drawn by an animal. A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes. A truck which travels along the fixed
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• UPSTREAM
  Toward the higher part of a stream; against the current.
• DROLLIST
  A droll. Glanvill.
• COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
  1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like
• DROLLISH
  Somewhat droll. Sterne.
• PROLL
  To search or prowl after; to rob; to plunder. Barrow.
• CONTROLLABILITY
  Capability of being controlled; controllableness.
• ENROLLER
  One who enrolls or registers.