The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled. • Something formed into a compact shape by being rolled up. • A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble. • Something which rolls. • A heavy cylinder used to break clods. • One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill. • A swagger or rolling gait. • A heavy, reverberatory sound. • The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear. • The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching; or the equivalent in an aircraft. • The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis. • The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis. • An instance of the act of rolling an aircraft through one or more complete rotations about its longitudinal axis. • The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice. • A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll). • A training match for a fighting dog. • An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted. • The skill of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted. • Any of various financial instruments or transactions that involve opposite positions at different expiries, "rolling" a position from one expiry to another. • An operation similar to a bit shift, but with the bit that "falls off the end" being wrapped around to the other end. • A 14-day deployment.