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Unroll v. t. (Written also unrol)

To open, as what is rolled or convolved; as, to unroll cloth; to unroll a banner.

To display; to reveal.

To remove from a roll or register, as a name. "If I make not this cheat bring out another... let me be unrolled and my name put in the book of virtue!"

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Etymology of 'Unroll'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Unroll" Quotes from Famous Books

... I have suffered all the torments which anxiety can devise or imagination, with its swift picture-film, may unroll before one's eyes? I have stifled as best I could these uncertain terrors. By day, when I have plunged into my work at the office, at times I have been able to shut my mind to the everlasting rehearsal around and around, over and ...

— The Blue Wall - A Story of Strangeness and Struggle • Richard Washburn Child

... a huge roll equal in size to a large bass drum, and requiring the strength of two men to lift them. Some of these on the continuous plan are also said to be of immense size; one, of modern date, is nine hundred feet in length and employs a man three hours to unroll it. The invaluable old record, known by the name of "Doomsday Book," is shaped like a book, and is much more convenient to open than most of the others. Various other legal documents, to an immense amount, ...

— Forty Centuries of Ink • David N. Carvalho

... case could not the prisoner take down the authorized hammock, unroll it, hook it ...

— The History of a Crime - The Testimony of an Eye-Witness • Victor Hugo

... perspiration, his inner garments were steaming, his outer ones were frozen into a coat of armor; when he paused he chilled rapidly. His vision was untrustworthy, also, and he felt snow blindness coming on. Grant begged him more than once to unroll the bedding and prepare to sleep out the storm; he even urged Johnny to leave him and make a dash for his own safety, but at this the younger man cursed and told ...

— The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories • Various

... ours," he assured her. "Just about everything either of us has ever wanted." The clamor was now so great—everyone was recognizing his-and-her house and was exclaiming about it—that both Temple and Hilton fell silent and simply watched the scenery unroll. ...

— Masters of Space • Edward Elmer Smith

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