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▪ I. press roll1 Papermaking.
[f. press n.1 + roll n.1]
(See quot. 1940.)
1881J. Dunbar Pract. Papermaker (ed. 2) 47 The author has tried a contrivance which effectually prevents the paper breaking at the press rolls. 1937E. J. Labarre Dict. Paper 195/1 Press rolls are pairs of heavy rolls, termed ‘first’, ‘second’, and ‘third’ press rolls according to their order in the paper-machine, serving to press out the water from the web of paper. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 671/1 Press rolls.., heavy cylinders of the paper-making machine which press out moisture from the wet web. Before the last pressing, the web is reversed in order to remove felt-marks.
▪ II. press roll2 Jazz.
[f. press n.1 + roll n.2]
A drum-roll (see roll n.2 2) in which the sticks are pressed against the drum-head.
1934[see drag n. 7 i]. 1939W. Hobson Amer. Jazz Music iii. 53 A ‘press roll’, one of the many rhythmic patterns which have been used by jazz drummers for years. 1956S. Longstreet Real Jazz 148 A press roll is played on snare drums. 1966New Yorker 11 June 153/1 Barbarin, in addition to a marvellous press roll, in which his sticks come at one another low from opposite edges of the snare in fat blurs, like gulls after the same clam, uses a high hat [etc.]. 1977Ibid. 9 May 51/1 He principally used..powerful, accented press rolls on his snare drum. |