verb

• (ergative) To revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on a horizontal axis; to impel forward with a revolving motion on a supporting surface.
  "To roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel."
• (ergative) To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.
  "To roll a sheet of paper; to roll clay or putty into a ball."
• (transitive) To bind or involve by winding, as with a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
  "To roll up the vase in bubble wrap."
• (ergative, sometimes figurative) To drive, impel, or flow onward with a steady, wave-like motion.
  "This river will roll its waters to the ocean."

noun

• (nautical, aviation) The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching; or the equivalent in an aircraft.
• (nautical) The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis.
• (US, paddlesport) An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
  "That was a good roll."
• (paddlesport) The skill of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
  "She has a bombproof roll."

noun

• (obsolete) A part; an office; a duty; a role.
  "THE Methods of Government and of Humane Society, muſt be Preſerv’d, where Every Man has his Roll, and his Station Aſſign’d him ; and it is not for One Man to break in upon the Province of Another."