subs. (Oxford University).—1. A roll-call.
2. (stock exchange).—In pl. = United States Rolling Stock.
3. (old).—In pl., the horse and foot patrols.—GROSE (1785); VAUX (1812).
4. (old).—A go-cart.
1714. A. SMITH, An History of the Lives of Highway-Men, etc., II. 50. He could run about without a ROWLER, or Leading-Strings.
5. (common).—A big wave coming in from a distance, and so with an enormous energy: also RUNNER.
1855. C. KINGSLEY, Westward Ho! xxxii. ROLLERS of the vast Atlantic … with a thousand crests of flying foam.
