Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

      (b) Hence, an official or public document; a register; a
          record; also, a catalogue; a list.

                The rolls of Parliament, the entry of the
                petitions, answers, and transactions in
                Parliament, are extant.           --Sir M. Hale.

                The roll and list of that army doth remain.
                                                  --Sir J.
                                                  Davies.
      (c) A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as,
          a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon.
      (d) A cylindrical twist of tobacco.

   4. A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled
      or doubled upon itself.

   5. (Naut.) The oscillating movement of a vessel from side to
      side, in sea way, as distinguished from the alternate rise
      and fall of bow and stern called pitching.

   6. A heavy, reverberatory sound; as, the roll of cannon, or
      of thunder.

   7. The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as
      scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.

   8. Part; office; duty; r[^o]le. [Obs.] --L'Estrange.

   {Long roll} (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.

   {Master of the rolls}. See under {Master}.

   {Roll call}, the act, or the time, of calling over a list
      names, as among soldiers.

   {Rolls of court}, {of parliament} (or of any public body),
      the parchments or rolls on which the acts and proceedings
      of that body are engrossed by the proper officer, and
      which constitute the records of such public body.

   {To call the roll}, to call off or recite a list or roll of
      names of persons belonging to an organization, in order to
      ascertain who are present or to obtain responses from
      those present.

   Syn: List; schedule; catalogue; register; inventory. See
        {List}.