A man speaks frantically into the phone, "My wife is pregnant, and her contractions are only two minutes apart!"
"Is this her first child?" the doctor queries.
"No, you idiot!" the man shouts. "This is her husband!"
bearing n. Bearing like a ball-bearing but with small cylinders instead of balls.
- blind n. Blind on a roller.
- n. - a revolving cylinder for smoothing, spreading, crushing, stamping, hanging a towel on, etc., used alone or in a machine. B cylinder for diminishing friction when moving a heavy object.
- small cylinder on which hair is rolled for setting.
- long swelling wave.
- towel n. Towel with the ends joined, hung on a roller.
ROLLON
roll-off adj. (of a ship, etc.) In which vehicles are driven directly on and off.
- —attrib. Adj. (of deodorant etc.) Applied by means of a rotating ball in the neck of the container. —n. Light elastic corset.
ROLLUP
n. (also roll-your-own) hand-rolled cigarette.
ROMANO
comb. Form roman; roman and (romano-british).
ROMANY
—n. (pl. -ies) 1 gypsy.
- language of the gypsies. —adj. Of gypsies or the romany language. [romany rom gypsy]
RONDEL
n. Rondeau, esp. One of special form. [french: related to *round: cf. *roundel]
ROOKIE
n. Slang new recruit. [corruption of recruit]
ROSARY
n. (pl. -ies) 1 rc ch. Repeated sequence of prayers.
- string of beads for keeping count in this. [latin rosarium rose-garden]
ROSTER
—n. List or plan of turns of duty etc. —v. Place on a roster. [dutch rooster, literally ‘gridiron’]
ROTARY
club n. Local branch of rotary.
- —adj. Acting by rotation (rotary drill). —n. (pl. -ies) 1 rotary machine.
- (rotary) (in full rotary international) worldwide charitable society of businessmen, orig. Entertaining in rotation. [medieval latin: related to *rota]
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