Bible dictionaries
Roller
What Bible dictionaries say about “Roller”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Roller - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
ROLLER, n.
1. That which rolls; that which turns on its own axis; particularly, a cylinder of wood, stone or metal, used in husbandry and the arts. Rollers are of various kinds and used for various purposes.
2. A bandage; a fillet; properly, a long and broad bandage used in surgery.
3. A bird of the magpie kind, about the size of a jay.
A bird of the genus Coracias, found in Europe; called also the German parrot.
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)
rol'-er: the King James Version and the English Revised Version in Eze 30:21 for chittul, "bandage" (so the American Standard Revised Version). "Roller" was formerly a technical term in surgery for a wide bandage.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915