roll up (rolup)

1. Same as roly - poly, 2. I know what the pudden's to be-apricot roll - up -0 my buttons! George Eliot , Mill on the Flo , i. 6. 2. A clogging of machinery in cotton-carding or the like. F. Wilson, Cotton Carder's Companion, p. 90. rollway (rol'wā), n. 1. A natural incline (as the bank of a stream), or an inclined structure, down which heavy bodies, especially logs, are propelled by their own weight; a shoot. This appliance for swinging logs from stump to rollway, car, or boat is to be the chief means for placing this North Carolina cypre where it will do the most good. Sci. Amer., N. S., LVIII. 152. 2. In lumbering, a ma of logs piled up for rolling down to or into a stream, or placed upon the ice to await spring freshets. The logs are drawn to the nearest river, where they are piled in great roll - ways , either on the ice or on a high bank, there to remain until the spring floods launch them. Scribner's Mag . , IV. 655. roloway (rol'ō-wā), n . [Origin obscure.] The Diana monkey, Cercopithecus diana . See cut under Diana.