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rollable en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin rotulader. Latin rotulāre Old French roelerbor. Middle English rollen English roll Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English rollable From roll + -able.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Capable of rolling or being rolled.
   • rollable electronics

Relateds

flexible

rollable en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin rotulader. Latin rotulāre Old French roelerbor. Middle English rollen English roll Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English rollable From roll + -able.

Meanings

1. Something that is rollable.
   • 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:
   • 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:

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