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Long roll

    0.03 sec.
(Mil.) a prolonged roll of the drums, as the signal of an attack by the enemy, and for the troops to arrange themselves in line.

See also: Roll



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When he was half-way out, the Ghost took a long roll to windward and back again into the hollow between two seas.
The Sea Wolf by London, Jack View in context
It spoke to us in a language of its own; and with a pathos more tender than any words might bring, its mute eloquence swept down the long roll of the centuries with its tale of a vacant chair, a familiar footstep missed from the threshold, a pleasant voice gone from the chorus, a vanished form
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
What an infinite number of generations, which the mind cannot grasp, must have succeeded each other in the long roll of years
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