rollable

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adjective

Capable of rolling or being rolled.

“rollable electronics”

Scrabble 10

Meanings

adjectiverollable (not comparable)
  1. not comparableCapable of rolling or being rolled.

    rollable electronics

nounrollable (plural rollables)

plural rollables

  1. Something that is rollable.

    Other researchers have added “raisins, beetles . . . cigarette butts, hard candy, human bed pillows, and many spots with nothing detectable to a human nose or eye” to the list of rollables.

    2016, Alexandra Horowitz, “Smeller”, in Being a Dog: Following the Dog into a World of Smell, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 19
    2 more examples

    On a hall just off the clinic’s main corridor are two small rooms; one is nearly filled with a child-sized round table and chairs and packed with crayons, paints, and miscellaneous arts and craft supplies. The other has trucks, dolls, puzzles, games, and various rollables and pushables on an open floor.

    1990, Karen Brodkin Sacks, “Does It Pay to Care?”, in Emily K. Abel, Margaret K. Nelson, editors, Circles of Care: Work and Identity in Women’s Lives (SUNY Series on Women and Work), Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, part III (Formal Organizations), page 196

    He's got the bridles of two rollables wrapped securely around his fingers and he seems to have made it his mission to keep tugging them, no matter what, much like Olaf Ver Olafson used to drag parked cars crammed with bimbos to world’s-strongest-man glory from 1978 to 1984, or like how the wise old carthorse used to tug his cart home in the dusk from Brapton up to Muffly Forge oh so many years ago.

    2001, Bruno Maddox, “28 Aug-⁠-6:33 a.m.”, in My Little Blue Dress: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, pages 278–279

Origin

  1. Latinrotula
  2. Latinrotulāre
  3. Old Frenchroeler
  4. Middle Englishrollen
  5. Englishroll
  6. Englishrollable

From roll + -able.

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