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▪ I. upˈroll, v.
[up- 4. Cf. WFris. oprôlje, Du. oprollen, G. aufrollen, Sw. upprulla, Da. oprulle.]
1. trans. To impel upwards by rolling.
1513Douglas æneid vi. ix. 4 Hir rosy chariot the fresche Aurora..Begouth for till wproll and rais on hie. 1743Francis tr. Horace, Epodes xvii. 24 Sisiphus, with many a Groan, Uprolls, with ceaseless Toil, his Stone. 1855Singleton Virgil I. 88 Thrice they essayed..on Ossa to uproll Leaf-fraught Olympus.
2. To roll or wind up. Also const. in.
1613Drummond of Hawthornden Cypress Grove ⁋7 A swift..wheele, which twinneth forth and againe vprolleth [1630 vpwindeth] our life. 1623― Flowers Sion xxv, I am that Monarch whom all Monarches feare, Who hath in Dust their farre-stretch'd Pride vproll'd.
b. intr. To concentrate by rolling; to form a roll.
1805–6Cary Dante, Inf. xxiv. 102 The dust again Uproll'd spontaneous, and the self-same form Instant resumed. 1818Milman Samor vi. 17 But far and wide,..Venomous and vast the clouds uproll. 1887Stevenson Mem. & Portraits xiii. 224 How the congregated clouds themselves uproll, as stiff as bolsters!
▪ II. ˈuproll, n. rare.
[up- 2.]
A rolling movement upwards.
a1885G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 192 Moist..With the uproll and the downcarol of day and night delivering Water. 1984A. Price Sion Crossing v. 83 David must have been..not quite senior enough to have sighted the gun and pulled the lanyard on the uproll—? |