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say it: ROH-lur
roller is a noun meaning "a grounder that rolls along the infield". It is pronounced /ˈɹoʊlɚ/ — ROH-lur. It carries 7 recorded senses.
a grounder that rolls along the infield
a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore
a small wheel without spokes (as on a roller skate)
a cylinder that revolves
a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it
“a woman with her head full of curlers is not a pretty sight”
Old World bird that tumbles or rolls in flight; related to kingfishers
pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for roller come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.