Definition of Rolfers

1. rolfer [n] - See also: rolfer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rolfers

role playing game
role playing games
roleless
rolelessness
roleplay
roleplayed
roleplayer
roleplayers
roleplaying
roleplaying game
roleplaying games
roleplays
roles
rolfed
rolfer
rolfers (current term)
rolfing
rolfings
rolfs
rolipram
rolitetracycline
roll
roll'd
roll-on
roll-on roll-off
roll-ons
roll-out
roll-over
roll-overs
roll-top

Literary usage of Rolfers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner by Edward Lillie Pierce, Charles Sumner (1893)
"... rise unless he bethought himself to push his chair back on its rolfers, — a movement not likely to occur to one acting under surprise and excitement. ..."

2. Specimens of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices, and by Thomas Campbell (1853)
"... For goode Svr Charleses fate. tread where he trod and see what he saw—ihe muniment room and its empty rolfers, the tomb of •* Mai. ..."

3. Tour in England, Ireland, and France: In the Years 1826, 1827, 1828, and by Hermann Pückler-Muskau (1833)
"The canvas does not hang straight down, but is stretched in a convex semicircle, and moved off slowly upon rolfers, so that the pictures are changed almost ..."

4. Theory of Structures and Strength of Materials by Henry Taylor Bovey (1893)
"... weight of the roof = 12 Ibs. per sq. ft.; the I normal wind-pressure upon AE may be taken = 30 Ibs. per sq. ft.; the end A is fixed and n is on rolfers. ..."

5. Shakespeare's Comedy of Twelfth Night: Or, What You Will by William Shakespeare (1907)
"... rolfers Shakespeare the Boy (1896; treating of the home and school life, the games and sports, the manners, customs, and folk-lore of the poet's time); ..."

6. Mathematics for Practical Men: Being a Common-place Book of Principles by Olinthus Gregory (1834)
"... by means of wires fastened to the rings between the rolfers, and which are rivetted to them. The above contrivance is exhibited in the annexed figure. ..."

7. Quarterly Report by Providence (R.I.). Public Works Dept (1907)
"... Repairs on paved streets 10315 71 Barn expenses Blacksmith and wheelwright shop Screening gravel Steam rolfers — repairs and supplies Tools, implements, ..."

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