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press roll en · NOUN
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A type of heavy roller, especially as used in papermaking.
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(qualifier:jazz) A type of drum roll whereby the drumsticks are pressed against the skin of the drum.
I really went for Ray's press roll on the drums; he was the first fay boy I ever heard who mastered this vital foundation of jazz music.
1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “They Found the Body in a Ditch”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 2 (1923–1928: Chicago, Chicago), page 62:
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