v. [UP- 4. Cf. WFris. oprôlje, Du. oprollen, G. aufrollen, Sw. upprulla, Da. oprulle.]
1. trans. To impel upwards by rolling.
1513. Douglas, Æneid, VI. ix. 4. Hir rosy chariot the fresche Aurora … Begouth for till wproll and rais on hie.
1743. Francis, trans. Horace, Epodes, xvii. 24. Sisiphus, with many a Groan, Uprolls, with ceaseless Toil, his Stone.
1855. Singleton, Virgil, I. 88. Thrice they essayed … on Ossa to uproll Leaf-fraught Olympus.
2. To roll or wind up. Also const. in.
1613. Drumm. of Hawth., Cypress Grove, ¶ 7. A swift … wheele, which twinneth forth and againe vprolleth [1630 vpwindeth] our life. Ibid. (1623), Flowers Sion, xxv. I am that Monarch whom all Monarches feare, Who hath in Dust their farre-stretch’d Pride vproll’d.
b. intr. To concentrate by rolling; to form a roll.
1805–6. Cary, Dante, Inf., XXIV. 102. The dust again Uproll’d spontaneous, and the self-same form Instant resumed.
1818. Milman, Samor, VI. 17. But far and wide,… Venomous and vast the clouds uproll.
1887. Stevenson, Mem. & Portraits, xiii. 224. How the congregated clouds themselves uproll, as stiff as bolsters!
