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Roll up

verb

Form into a cylinder by rolling. Synonym: furl.

Get or gather together. Synonyms: accumulate, amass, collect, compile, hoard, pile up. "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis" , "She rolled up a small fortune"

Arrive in a vehicle:.

Make into a bundle. Synonyms: bundle, bundle up.

Close (a car window) by causing it to move up, as with a handle.

Form a cylinder by rolling. Synonym: wrap up.

Show certain properties when being rolled. Synonym: roll. "Dried-out tobacco rolls badly"

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"Roll up" Quotes from Famous Books

... and fainting. At length they got alongside the boat; and now the greatest caution was necessary, lest, in taking him in, the canoe should be capsized. The boat likewise, on being touched, might roll up, and with her mast stave in the fragile side of the canoe. It seemed almost impossible to accomplish their object without upsetting themselves. Those who know what a birch-bark canoe is like will best understand ...

— The Log House by the Lake - A Tale of Canada • William H. G. Kingston

... hurrying that, in the full enjoyment of the much-coveted departure. His pleasure was, perhaps, rather damped by a running commentary he overheard through the lattice-window of the stable, from Leather, as he stripped his horses and tried to roll up their clothing in a ...

— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees

... with these forms of protective resemblance, we find certain habits which sometimes serve independently to protect the spider, but oftener are supplemental to color and form. Many species hide in crevices or in leaves which they roll up and bind together at the edges. In the Epeiridae some are like thaddeus, which makes a little tent of silk under a leaf near its web. The young thaddeus also makes a tent, but spins its little geometrical web on the under side of the leaf, the edges being bent downward. E. insularis has ...

— A Book of Natural History - Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. • Various

... mostly—yet—masculine world... Well, I guess we start rolling, eh? I didn't want to jolt any of you poor sick people, so I camped. Let's get you all into Archers, for which I have a few spare parts left. Then, after we roll up this sealed, air-conditioned tent of a familiar material, we ...

— The Planet Strappers • Raymond Zinke Gallun

... and will think again and again that the day of redemption is dawning, and will see the night roll up again. You will see great movements set in and struggle to the front and go down when most was expected of them. You will see in the morning the crowd repent of its enthusiasm of the night before. You will find cowards where you expected ...

— The Workingman's Paradise - An Australian Labour Novel • John Miller

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