roil

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See also: roił

English

WOTD – 1 August 2010

Etymology

Possibly from French or Middle French rouiller (“to rust, make muddy”), from Old French rouil (“mud, rust”), from Vulgar Latin *robicula, from Latin robigo (“rust, blight”)

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɔɪl

Verb

roil (third-person singular simple present roils, present participle roiling, simple past and past participle roiled)

  1. To render turbid (to agitate) by stirring up the dregs or sediment of
    • To roil wine, cider, etc, in casks or bottles Lua error in Module:quote at line 2605: |2= is an alias of |year=; cannot specify a value for both
    • To roil a spring.
  2. To annoy; to make someone angry.
    • R. North
      That his friends should believe it, was what roiled him exceedingly.
  3. (intransitive) To bubble, seethe.
    • 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things
      By noon, Brian's stomach had begun to roil and knot. He hurried down to the bathroom at the end of the hall in his stocking feet, closed the door, and vomited into the toilet bowl as quietly as he could.
    • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎[1]:
      Throughout the 1500s, the populace roiled over a constellation of grievances of which the forest emerged as a key focal point. The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.
  4. (obsolete, intransitive) To wander; to roam.
  5. (obsolete, UK, dialect, intransitive) To romp.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “roil”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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