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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

rowling en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (archaic, form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of rowl (“roll”)
    form of rowl
    • There stood a Hill not far whose griesly top / Belch'd fire and rowling smoak 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 670–1:

Synonyms

rolling