re-rollv.
/ˌriːˈrəʊl/, U.S. /riˈroʊl/ transitive. To roll again (in various senses). Also intransitive.
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the world > space > shape > flatness or levelness > smoothness > make smooth [verb (transitive)] > by rolling
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > roll > again
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparing pastry, biscuits, or cake > prepare pastry, biscuits, or cake [verb (transitive)] > roll out > again
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the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [verb (transitive)] > coil round (something) > coil (something) round or upon itself > again
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1816 J. Clowes tr. E. Swedenborg Part First on Worship & Love of God ii. 284 All derive their life from the Supreme, who is the life of all living things; they also roll in the circles of their order, and re-roll, according to the ratio of influx.
1868 Q. Rev. July 299 About 250,000 tons [of rails] require to be taken up, re-rolled, and re-laid.
1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 May 6/2 The gelatine strip is unrolled from one spindle and re-rolled upon another.
1955 P. Wildeblood Against Law iii. 118 The ensuing ‘dog-ends’ are unpicked, re-rolled and smoked again.
a1961 E. Hemingway Garden of Eden (1987) ii. vii. 58 ‘Up yours,’ he said and re-rolled the papers and went out.
1994 R. Wright Moral Animal (1995) i. 28 Yes, the dice do get rerolled, and the context of evolution changes.
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re-ˈrolled adj.
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1851 Rep. Stockholders (Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.) 62 The policy pursued by the Company for the last two years, of having their new rails made entirely of rerolled iron, has been decidedly beneficial.
1955 Times 14 July 15/3 Difficulties were experienced due to the national shortage of re-rolled steel products.
2002 C. McPherson Bone Island 99 He puts the rerolled tape on a shelf, puts the box back in the bag and goes out with it.
re-ˈrolling n.
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1846 W. Greener Sci. Gunnery (new ed.) 125 The frequent welding and re-rolling of iron is of the most beneficial tendency.
1950 Engineering 21 July 59/2 Home produced steel semies are reaching the re-rolling mills in very large quantities.
2008 New Yorker 14 Jan. 50/2 A large pile of Ukrainian rails was waiting to be shipped to a rerolling mill in the South, where the rails would be melted down.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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