(UK, legal, obsolete) A duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll.
(UK, legal, obsolete) A duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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The act by which something is rolled.
(UK, education, transitive) To remove (a pupil) from the list of those enrolled at a school, for illegitimate reasons such as improving the school's examination rankings.
(obsolete, UK, legal) An advocate or professional pleader; one who counted for his client, that is, orally pleaded his cause.
(US, obsolete) Official documents permitting one to drive, (particularly) to drive a freight truck.
(British, military) a short deployed tour for a major combat unit or other grouping of personnel on a continuing operation.